Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:49:30 +0100 From: Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Jay Chandler <chandler.lists@chapman.edu> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Widescreen on Xorg? Message-ID: <461F7C5A.1000602@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <461BF48D.7060603@chapman.edu> References: <461BF48D.7060603@chapman.edu>
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Jay Chandler wrote: > Howdy. > I'm relatively new to FreeBSD on the desktop. I've been burning along > quite happily for a couple months, but this morning my new Samsung 226BW > showed up (22 inch widescreen). > > Pretty screen, but running in Xorg and GNOME, I'm limited to a > resolution that's rather crap (1280x1024 before it starts shifting > around following the mouse). > > Relevant lines from my xorg.conf: > > Section "Monitor" > #DisplaySize 470 300 # mm > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "SAM" > ModelName "SyncMaster" > ModeLine "1680x1050" 119.0 1680 1728 1760 1840 1050 1053 1059 > 1080 > ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: > HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 > VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > > > Section "Device" > ### Available Driver options are:- > ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False", > ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz" > ### [arg]: arg optional > #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>] > #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>] > #Option "ColorKey" # <i> > #Option "CacheLines" # <i> > #Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>] > #Option "DRI" # [<bool>] > #Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>] > #Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>] > #Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i> > #Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>] > Identifier "Card0" > Driver "i810" > VendorName "Intel Corporation" > BoardName "945G Integrated Graphics Controller" > BusID "PCI:0:2:0" > EndSection > > > And a screen section with no mode settings but a bunch of color depths. > Not certain but... with the i945GM on my laptop it doesnt list the widescreen modes as available in the video bios and it needed to be set using 915resolution (sysutils/915resolution) it might be worth your while installing it and checking the output of 915resolution -l (i need to use the command /usr/local/bin/915resolution 5c 1440 900 32 to enable 1440x900 on my laptop) regards, Vince > Anyone have any words of wisdom? >
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