From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 18:59:58 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B9616A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:59:58 +0000 (GMT) Received: from niobe.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [193.2.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06BF343D5A for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:59:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dejan.lesjak@ijs.si) Received: from localhost (patsy.ijs.si [193.2.4.8]) by niobe.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50FB51DD57A; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:59:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from niobe.ijs.si ([193.2.4.24]) by localhost (patsy.ijs.si [193.2.4.8]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15663-02-9; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:59:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from idefix.ijs.si (idefix.ijs.si [193.2.4.33]) by niobe.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C7F71DD516; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:59:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.ijs.si (localhost.ijs.si [127.0.0.1]) by idefix.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9D645C0A; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:59:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Dejan Lesjak To: Andrew Marks Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:59:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <4415e9c10503241609497ace49@mail.gmail.com> <200503301709.34472.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <4415e9c105033010321dabd82b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4415e9c105033010321dabd82b@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503302059.53273.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ijs.si cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell 700m 1280x800 X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:59:58 -0000 On Wednesday 30 of March 2005 20:32, Andrew Marks wrote: > Just got a blank screen with that one. I installed i855vidctl, but > the video modes in the output are not correct. I browsed throught the > source, and thougt if I could find out how the video modes are stored > in the vbios, I could alter i855vidctl to work with my vbios, which it > doesn't seem to do right now. I found some intel docs on the > 855GM/GME, (I have the GME) but I didn't find anything about the > layout of the vbios memory. The reason I bring this up is because my > vbios does not have the 1280x800 mode in it, and I am not expert, but > I assume that that has to be in there before Xorg can take advantage > of that mode. Correct me if I am wrong, but would the frist step be > to add the 1280x800 mode to my video bios somehow? and if so, where > can I get the documentation for interfacing with my video bios. If > not, and Xorg can use resolutions that are not in the video bios, what > do I have to do go get those to work? Unfortunately, yes: X can only do modes that video bios support. There are a couple of pages that talk about this problem with Intel graphics chips. I don't have Intel graphics so I haven't tried them. First thing you might try is to see if Dell has issued a bios upgrade - it appears that at least for some laptops BIOS upgrade included modes for video BIOS. And here are some links in no particular order: http://www.chzsoft.com.ar/855patch.html http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/ http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/linux/fc1_intel_video_fix.htm Dejan