From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 10 07:28:00 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 47D4616A41C for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 07:28:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9948643D48 for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 07:27:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050610072758.JWXI26596.mta09-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:27:58 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.101] (really [82.23.1.73]) by aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050610072757.COVD15401.aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@[192.168.1.101]>; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:27:57 +0100 From: Ben Paley To: Remington L Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:27:53 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200506071529.47798.ben@spooty.net> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506100827.53946.ben@spooty.net> 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 List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 07:28:00 -0000 On Thursday 09 June 2005 23:09, Remington L wrote: > Correction, sorry for the previously post(I'm at work). The problem lies > with the Intel VBIOS not reporting the correct resolution to Xorg. As a > workaround you need to modify the VBIOS and use an updated i810 driver. > Here is the Xorg i810 driver: > http://www.fairlite.demon.co.uk/intel.html > To modify the VBIOS please install and run sysutils/915resolution. > Thank'll fix it! I shouldn't complain because it seems actually to be running at 1280x800 at last (at least, kde display manager tells me so, and Opera reports it using screen.availHeight and screen.availWidth!), but there are a couple of odd things going on... A) I ran 915resolution before doing all the things I did to get it working, resetting all of the 1280x1024 modes to 1280x800. But it only works on the memory copy of the VBIOS, and, indeed, this morning when I rebooted, and still now, 915resolution -l gives three modes at 1280x1024 and none at 1280x800... AND YET my screen is running happily at 1280x800! B) None of my attempts to use the i810 driver came to anything. If I added Chipset "915G" I would get slightly different errors, but never a working screen (though interestingly I managed to get as far as hearing the KDE startup sound even when I couldn't see anything!). My current xorg.conf uses the generic vesa driver. So the two things that I was concentrating on - the VBIOS and the driver, turn out not to have been the real issues at all. Heaven knows *what* the real issues were... it all just goes to show that X configuration is black magic, and I could just as easily have waved a chicken at it for the same result, and probably quicker (though not as cheap, of course). If anyone is interested, I will be glad to send my xorg.conf, and logs and all the rest of it. Thank you all very much for your help! I may be none the wiser, but I am much happier! Cheers, Ben