From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 19 23:57:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D76937B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 23:57:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail2.broadpark.no [217.13.4.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA51D43E4A for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 23:56:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmail@sensewave.com) Received: from tove (217-13-29-172.dd.nextgentel.com [217.13.29.172]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id D243582F9; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:56:12 +0100 (MET) From: "Kjell" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kevin buch Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:56:33 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: VESA...getting 24bit depth on X Reply-To: junkmail@sensewave.com Message-ID: <3DDB4E41.16144.1429E0@localhost> In-reply-to: <20021120052746.73862.qmail@web14508.mail.yahoo.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a Dell Inspiron 3800 laptop. I can get X to > work but only at 8bit depth. I want to get it to 16 > or 24, and I was told that enabling VESA in the kernel > would work. > > I enabled VESA in the kernel: > options VESA I have put the following in the kernel conf file: options VESA options VGA_WIDTH90 options SC_PIXEL_MODE > and recompiled it. But when I restarted I still had > to same problem. I also added: > > allscreens_flags="-g 80x30 VESA_1024x768 > in /etc/rc.conf When i issue the following vidcontrol -g 100x37 VESA_800x600 from the command line, my screen comes up as expected > I really don't know what else to do. I recently had > RedHat on it and it worked fine...and X works fine > except for the resolution. > > All help is appreciated. > Kevin > gl from Kjell To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message