Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:52:15 +0800 From: "Janvier Pang" <janvier.roc@gmail.com> To: SirDice <sirdice@xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can anybody change the resolution to 1280x800? Message-ID: <7deba7c00612292252i77447247ieae8b59ec1bb968c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45952E5C.5030009@xs4all.nl> References: <7deba7c00612260923ja2c6eccs52e7004d7fdec33@mail.gmail.com> <499c70c0612261017yf098367u598d4ac8d191f1b1@mail.gmail.com> <20061228145033.GA35875@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <7deba7c00612280812s51089c57ie57c11e32d21c0bb@mail.gmail.com> <20061228183348.GA36964@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <7deba7c00612281804k17beccb6t946a12c5f54f952e@mail.gmail.com> <20061229141943.GA53248@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <45952E5C.5030009@xs4all.nl>
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Is that possible to port the latest fglrx driver (for linux) to freebsd? This driver works well on my linux platform on the same machine now. B.Rgds, Janvier Pang On 12/29/06, SirDice <sirdice@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 10:04:27AM +0800, Janvier Pang wrote: > >> Bad news... > >> > >> But I can not find the supported resolution list as Adam said, how > could I > >> know what resolutions my graphic card supported? > > > > I believe that 'vidcontrol -i mode' will output a list of all the VESA > > modes the graphics card provides support for. (And if you are using the > > 'vesa' driver those are the only modes you can use.) > > You do need "options VESA" in the kernel config or the list will be very > short and lacking the graphics modes. > > >> I'll read the document of X.org again carefully, to see if there any > >> solution for the resolution of my graphic card. > > > > I think that ATI provides a proprietary driver for their newer cards > that > > is supposed to work with X.org. (It is probably labeled as being for > Linux, > > but that should hoefully not matter since X.org drivers are supposed to > be > > OS-neutral.) I have never tried using ATI's driver so I don't know > > anything further about it than that it is supposed to exist. > > AFAIK this is not the case. There's a reason why NVidia has different > drivers for Linux, FreeBSD and Sun. > Again AFAIK the accelerated (proprietary or not) Xorg drivers all need a > kernel module. This is pretty OS specific. > > > Cheers, > > Remko C. > >
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