Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:03:36 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD6, FSC Lifebook E8010, Xorg Message-ID: <42E9F0E8.70007@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <200507281339.j6SDdcAL051678@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200507281339.j6SDdcAL051678@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote:
>Does the output look reasonable (except that you cannot
>change the resolution)?
>
i855vidctl: output unreasonable, but changeable
915resolution: output reasonable, but read-only, as it seems.
BTW: the 915resolution-port installs said linux-binary anyway, the
source-code is ignored by the port, too.
> If it displays weird numbers,
>it didn't detect or locate the mode list in your video
>BIOS correctly. That's what happened for me with the
>odler version ("855resolution"). The above-mentioned,
>newer one worked for me.
>
>
>
The 855resolution-program worked only in SuSE9.2.
Can't I just force the silly driver to display 1400x1050, with some
"yes, I know what I'm doing"-switch?
>If it displays reasonable numbers for you (i.e. those
>standard resolutins like 1024x768 etc.), it located the
>mode list correctly. But if you still cannot change the
>modes, maybe the video BIOS hasn't been shadowed to RAM
>(i.e. it's running from ROM, so it cannot be modified).
>You might check your BIOS setup and look for an option
>to enable video BIOS shadowing.
>
>
My "streamlined" FSC-BIOS (a Phoenix-OEM-BIOS) does not have an option
to do that.
I'll try to send a ktrace....
>I have a collection of links on this issue:
>
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/
> http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/i855vidctl/
> http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/
> http://www.fairlite.demon.co.uk/intel.html
> http://people.tecnik93.com/~acpi_perf/
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643
>
>The last link (freedesktop.org) is a fairly interesting
>discussion of the whole story.
>
>
Indeed, thanks for the links.
cheers,
Rainer
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