From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 10 17:35:42 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 6D3D516A41C for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:35:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ckleski@mbc.edu) Received: from mbc.edu (mail.mbc.edu [216.57.240.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD0CF43D5E for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:35:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ckleski@mbc.edu) Received: from [192.168.0.100] by mbc.edu (Cipher TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (MDaemon.PRO.v8.0.3b.R) with ESMTP id md50005315204.msg for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:35:07 -0400 X-ClamAV: PASS From: Craig Kleski To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:36:54 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200506071529.47798.ben@spooty.net> <200506100827.53946.ben@spooty.net> In-Reply-To: <200506100827.53946.ben@spooty.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506101336.55019.ckleski@mbc.edu> X-SortMonster-MessageSniffer-Message: md50005315204.msg X-SortMonster-MessageSniffer-Rules: tgibseut-MDPv0.53b (SNFv2-3.1i2) No patterns matched. X-SortMonster-MessageSniffer-Result: 0 X-Authenticated-Sender: ckleski@mbc.edu X-Spam-Processed: mail.mbc.edu, Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:35:07 -0400 (not processed: message from trusted or authenticated source) X-Lookup-Warning: HELO/EHLO lookup on 192.168.0.100 does not match 65.202.151.105 X-MDRemoteIP: 65.202.151.105 X-Return-Path: ckleski@mbc.edu X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-MDAV-Processed: mail.mbc.edu, Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:35:09 -0400 Cc: Ben Paley 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 17:35:42 -0000 On Friday 10 June 2005 07:27 am, Ben Paley wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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" IIRC, i915 agp is not supported in -stable http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=80396 Somewhere in this PR is a patch for i915 agp support. Theoretically it should allow you to use the i810 driver and not the VESA driver.