From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 9 21:58:29 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 EDDE916A41C for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:58:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mrl0lz@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84FFB43D1D for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 21:58:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mrl0lz@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so224650wra for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 14:58:28 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=Lx/zqwfue4LEIC2nBAuVD+WnrIQ3C5ylbTKsgGLk0ldEdBxPHM0Gz4ElHbJtmPQMGE2Kcc38NleWwhUODaGJ/EWiZe0Zqn5GWQMltKFBLn0iiRazJwGdlbn0EHvj1kCL2XOjaaTk9U9NhbRUJsxJtvSbsE2z9QwgpWB8DTWS74I= Received: by 10.54.71.3 with SMTP id t3mr593195wra; Thu, 09 Jun 2005 14:58:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.98.6 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:58:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:58:28 -0700 From: Remington L To: Ben Paley In-Reply-To: <200506092056.20209.ben@spooty.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 References: <200506071529.47798.ben@spooty.net> <200506071110.43618.ckleski@mbc.edu> <200506092056.20209.ben@spooty.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "P.U.Kruppa" , Craig Kleski , 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 Reply-To: Remington L List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 21:58:30 -0000 This is a common issue. Ben please contact me off the list. I ran into this= =20 EXACT same problem. A quick fix is a port of 810resolution. I submitted it= =20 for commit into ports a month ago but still not in the tree. Again contact= =20 me off the list and ill give you everything you need( Sorry if you dont Ill= =20 forget to send you all the stuff when I get home) On 6/9/05, Ben Paley wrote:=20 >=20 > > > 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. >=20 > > You might need > > agp_load=3D"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 ). >=20 > Thanks a lot - i think the agp thing may have helped. I compiled it in=20 > instead > of loading it dynamically >=20 > > > 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. >=20 > > 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: >=20 > I think this is what 915resolution does for me. >=20 > > ModeLine "1280x800" 71.0 1280 1328 1360 1440 800 802 808 823 >=20 > Thanks for this. >=20 > > Use the i810 driver. >=20 > Weirdly, although everyone says to use i810, I could only make it work=20 > with > the vesa driver! >=20 > Anyway, thanks a lot both of you - between you and some more googling I > finally seem to have got it going! >=20 > Thanks, > Ben > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >