From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 29 22:37:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD8616A41A for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:37:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from angelheaven1980@yahoo.com) Received: from n1.bullet.mail.re4.yahoo.com (n1.bullet.mail.re4.yahoo.com [206.190.56.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CFF5213C45D for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:37:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from angelheaven1980@yahoo.com) Received: from [68.142.237.89] by n1.bullet.re4.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 29 Jan 2008 22:24:32 -0000 Received: from [216.252.111.167] by t5.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 29 Jan 2008 22:24:32 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp102.mail.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 29 Jan 2008 22:24:32 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-5 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 781665.25278.bm@omp102.mail.re3.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 53390 invoked by uid 60001); 29 Jan 2008 22:24:32 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=Rm0YzOyf3s+PhjbM8A+WUxH8e62I582dTFgh1ybsV28h/cu5YCdovxQSQULYfPfWau/aS+bwIQ28jqhXgUOgm259VOD6w++nDPpD50UZRkTk6BdXE4zmKAxfaikKvAtiKtqgj+BjM6CuhQ68j5aLYv4GeG5jStxd3Vq434ajqmY=; Received: from [74.12.130.75] by web57510.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:24:32 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/818.31 YahooMailWebService/0.7.160 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:24:32 -0800 (PST) From: Angel Heaven To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <584265.53334.qm@web57510.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Display / Screen resolution question on IBM TP 1171 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:37:31 -0000 I've just finished installing freebsd on my IBM thinkpad i-series i-1300 1171 series IV laptop. This is a machine on which none of DSL, fedora, or ubuntu liveCD would work at all. So I am surprised (and quite grateful) that freebsd can actually be installed on this laptop! The next problem is trying to fix the screen resolution. According to winxp, it has a Trident Video Accelerator CyberBlade-Ai1 video card inside. Apparently it has 8MB or video ram, which is taken directly from the real RAM. The monitor is 1024x768. The default screen resolution of X (I tried startx, xinit, gdm) is 1280x1024, which is obviously too big for my monitor. After searching the web and following various instructions, I've tried the following to no avail. I found that as long as I had a xorg.conf file in /etc/X11, the mouse(trackball) wouldn't work. I tried "X -configure" and copied the file to /etc/X11. With or without changing anything in xorg.conf, the mouse(trackball) seized to work. Obviously, I couldn't do anything without a pointing device. Then I tried xorgconfig... the problem this time seemed to be not being able to find the Trident driver. xinit, startx and gdm wouldn't load at all. I also checked the /var/log/Xorg.0.log, it looked like the vesa driver was used by default every single time. After reading the suggestions in this mailing list, I proceeded to running "xrandr -s 1024x768" from a terminal while running X (I tried startx and gdm). The response I got was "Size 1024x768 not found in available modes" Then I tried "xvidtune -next" and then "xvidtune -show", viola! I got the response "1024x768 etc". Had the screen shrunk in size? No. But this time I could move the mouse to the edges, and the whole screen would pan left-right and up-down so I could reach the part that was too big for the monitor. It's a virtual screen! Well, at least it's usable now, and I'm happy. My question is that is there a way to actually shrink the screen to fit the monitor without having the virtual screen? Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- aghv ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs