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Date:      Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:42:40 -0400
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: VESA support for wide screens?
Message-ID:  <201106231742.41873.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimKGR2ks4_mqE7_UvevV8=iLDt1ig@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <BANLkTimKGR2ks4_mqE7_UvevV8=iLDt1ig@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thursday 23 June 2011 05:22 pm, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I nave a new laptop with a 1600x900 display and an Intel 3000
> (Sandybridge) GPU. Looks like no direct support until GEM and KMS
> is available. Until then, I'd really like a display that is not
> squashed. I am not at all familiar with the vesa driver, so I have
> no idea how to proceed.
>
> The only resolution I see offered by the vesa driver is 1024x768.
> Can I add a mode (preferably using xrandr) to get the pixels back
> to being square? And, can I get it to use the full resolution?

If your VESA BIOS does not support the desired mode, there is no way, 
unfortunately.

Jung-uk Kim



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