Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 13:29:17 -0800 From: Gary D Kline <kline@thought.org> To: taxman <taxman@acd.net> Cc: "Miroslaw J. Wiechowski" <mjw@bahnhof.se>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel i810e graphic Message-ID: <20030309212917.GA16437@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <200303091343.33701.taxman@acd.net> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030308122015.024b5ec0@mail.bahnhof.se> <200303091343.33701.taxman@acd.net>
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On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:43:33PM -0500, taxman wrote: > On Saturday 08 March 2003 06:33 am, Miroslaw J. Wiechowski wrote: > > > The system installation program does not give me any > > working configuration. The best I could get was some > > ugly display with standard VGA, configured by XFree86 -configure. > > > > Did anyone succeed with this Intel i810e chip and 1024x768 > > resolution at all? > > Getting hardware detection working well for every single chipset out there is > pretty tough. The i810 is pretty common, but pretty wacky too it seems. > > This'll sound funny, but try knoppix. It has amazing hardware autodetection. > Boot with it then save your Xfree config file (it's in the same place) to > floppy or something. Copy that over to FreeBSD and it'll likely work once > you've followed the other suggestions people have had. You may need to edit > out some of the font dir's that aren't installed on your FreeBSD system, but > that should be about it. > > get knoppix at: > http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html > or google for knoppix mini iso, as there are some of those out there for a > smaller download. > > Anyway that's how i finally got my Xfree config to work perfectly with my > monitor/video card > I assume that "knoppix" fits onto a CDROM.... (without having checked). IIRC (and who knows?) I believe I had my i815 working at 1280x1024 before my 17" tube went south--(bad v. regulator)-- and I had to use a 15" generic CRT at 1024x768. With the expertise that has been share around on this list re the i810, I've got my /etc/XF86Config working at 1024x768. (I'll share it with anyone who wants or post it on my website and give the URL....) I have a 19" tube now, and would like to drive it at a higher resolution. Nothing I seem to know, tho, seems to get me more than 1024x768. (??) gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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