From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 12 11:31: 0 2002 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 B5E3137B401 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 11:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from vcnet.com (mail.vcnet.com [209.239.239.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 580AD43EB1 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 11:30:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thanatos@vcnet.com) Received: (qmail 46151 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2002 18:30:56 -0000 Received: from 1-0-401.adsl.vcnet.com (HELO vcnet.com) (209.239.236.203) by mail.vcnet.com with SMTP; 12 Oct 2002 18:30:56 -0000 Message-ID: <3DA86A5D.6020208@vcnet.com> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 11:30:53 -0700 From: Thanatos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Catherine Liao Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dell c400 w/ i830m on freebsd w/ xfree86 4.2.1 using the vesa driver References: <20021011200549.GA10205@med.stanford.edu> <20021012072534.GB15484@med.stanford.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Catherine Liao wrote: > Hi there, > > I've spent the last two days trying to get X to run on my new Dell C400 laptop > w/ FreeBSD. I was successful in getting X to start in 1024x768x8, but not > higher. I've read that others have been able to get 1024x768x24, and I hope > someone on this list might be able to help me out. > > Here's the screen section from my XF86Config: > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen 1" > Device "* Generic VESA compatible" > Monitor "My Monitor" > DefaultDepth 24 > DefaultFbBpp 32 > > Subsection "Display" > Depth 8 > Modes "1024x768" > ViewPort 0 0 > EndSubsection > Subsection "Display" > Depth 16 > Modes "1024x768" > ViewPort 0 0 > EndSubsection > Subsection "Display" > Depth 24 > FbBpp 32 > Modes "1024x768" > ViewPort 0 0 > EndSubsection > EndSection > > Here's the error message I receive: > Total Memory: 13 64Kb banks (0M) > (EE) VESA(0): No matching modes > (II) UnloadModule: "vesa" > (II) UnloadModule: "ddc" > (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a > (II) UnloadModule: "int10" > (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.a > (II) UnloadModule: "vbe" > (II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > > It seems odd to me that X sees a very small amount of memory: "Total Memory: 13 > 64Kb banks (0M)". What do I need to do to get X to see more memory? I've patched both i810_drv.o & > agpreg.h w/ the i810diff & i810diff-2 patches. > > > Here're the complete config, log, & dmesg: > http://catacus.com/~catz/docs/help/vesa_xf86config > http://catacus.com/~catz/docs/help/XFree86.0_log > http://catacus.com/~catz/docs/help/dmesg > > What am I missing? Any help is appreciated. Thanks! > > -Catherine Liao > Sr. Systems Administrator > IRT, School of Medicine > Stanford University > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Hello, Change Identifier "Screen 1" to "Screen0" ???? Have no idea if the will help but that is what is different from mine to yours. Hope it helps, Thanatos p.s. Was having mail issues .. please forgive if this shows up more than once. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message