From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 10 18:50:17 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 EC70F16A41C for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:50:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mrl0lz@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D26343D1D for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:50:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mrl0lz@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so450787wra for ; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:50:15 -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=ImiT+vyoTiUzzaBmrtJzgAf6Wqp1X82xhrzDd7qkHUp5gbPubarZQ1pG9H3+83G6cvEnxohwsodwedJgTFrNlJkWKBKgzfkGLfebPjQTiCkLsz6LK3RTKqxhLv1zIvacnEF8ZuRnEjzWBwqTkE3GIR26jll2a6Mxnz/ruHTcdMo= Received: by 10.54.116.20 with SMTP id o20mr1134061wrc; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.98.6 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:50:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:50:15 -0700 From: Remington L To: Craig Kleski In-Reply-To: <200506101336.55019.ckleski@mbc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 References: <200506071529.47798.ben@spooty.net> <200506100827.53946.ben@spooty.net> <200506101336.55019.ckleski@mbc.edu> 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: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, 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 Reply-To: Remington L List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 18:50:17 -0000 It is also not officially supported by Xorg. I am told by the driver=20 developer 6.8.3 will fully support it(hopefully eliminating the need for an= y=20 VBIOS workaround) On 6/10/05, Craig Kleski wrote: >=20 > 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" >=20 > IIRC, i915 agp is not supported in -stable >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D80396 >=20 > 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. >=20 > _______________________________________________ > 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" >