From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 19:56:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E5016A420 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:56:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB9E43D1F for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 19:56:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050609195624.JXGX6745.mta07-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 20:56:24 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.101] (really [82.23.1.73]) by aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050609195624.ZFRI24546.aamta10-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@[192.168.1.101]>; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 20:56:24 +0100 From: Ben Paley To: Craig Kleski , "P.U.Kruppa" Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 20:56:19 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200506071529.47798.ben@spooty.net> <200506071110.43618.ckleski@mbc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200506071110.43618.ckleski@mbc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506092056.20209.ben@spooty.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 19:56:26 -0000 > > I'm running 5.4 on my shiny new dell inspiron 6000 - there are a few > > things yet to sort out, and one of them is X. Amazing. In winxp it > > runs at 1280x800, 16bit (I think, or 24? can't remember off-hand, i'd > > be happy with 8 for the moment!). And it seems I need the i810 > > Generic driver from xorg. > You might need > agp_load="YES" >in your /boot/loader.conf . See also >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html >(Section 5.4.3.1). Thanks a lot - i think the agp thing may have helped. I compiled it in instead of loading it dynamically > > At the moment, I'm working with no xorg.conf at all! I get 800x600, > > not sure of colour depth. But I really want / need to take advantage > > of the full screen resolution. I understand I should set things up to > > run 915resolution on boot, to teach the vbios about 1280x800. But > > I've yet make or find an xorg.conf that even gives me a display. > You may want to check /etc/X11/Xorg.0.log to see if any 1280x800 modes > are recognized. If not, you may need to use 855patch: I think this is what 915resolution does for me. > ModeLine "1280x800" 71.0 1280 1328 1360 1440 800 802 808 823 Thanks for this. > Use the i810 driver. Weirdly, although everyone says to use i810, I could only make it work with the vesa driver! Anyway, thanks a lot both of you - between you and some more googling I finally seem to have got it going! Thanks, Ben