From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 29 09:03:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79A4716A41F for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:03:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B15F543D53 for ; Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:03:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 42175 invoked by uid 1005); 29 Jul 2005 09:03:36 -0000 Received: from rainer@ultra-secure.de by bsd.ultra-secure.de by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (clamdscan: 0.85. spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(213.196.191.65):. Processed in 0.030661 secs); 29 Jul 2005 09:03:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.179?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@213.196.191.65) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 29 Jul 2005 09:03:35 -0000 Message-ID: <42E9F0E8.70007@ultra-secure.de> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:03:36 +0200 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (X11/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200507281339.j6SDdcAL051678@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200507281339.j6SDdcAL051678@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD6, FSC Lifebook E8010, Xorg X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:03:38 -0000 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