From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 2 20:18:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F3121065685 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:18:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (five.mired.org [66.92.153.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26A128FC16 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 2008 20:18:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 93349 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2008 15:51:17 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO mbook.local) (192.168.195.193) by 0 with SMTP; 2 Jul 2008 15:51:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:51:28 -0400 From: Mike Meyer To: Rui Paulo Message-ID: <20080702155128.2a4c5a23@mbook.local> In-Reply-To: <20080702121545.GA7515@phi.local> References: <20080628191533.367ad223@bhuda.mired.org> <20080702121545.GA7515@phi.local> Organization: Meyer Consulting X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.9; i386-apple-darwin9.2.2) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:22:31 +0000 Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer Subject: Re: Custom VESA modes on FreeBSD 7? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:18:12 -0000 On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:15:45 +0100 Rui Paulo wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 07:15:33PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > > I'm trying to get FreeBSD 7-RELEASE running in a VirtualBox VM to use > > all of my LCD panel in X. The running X is using the vesa driver, > > which should be cool for this, as VirtualBox has provisions for > > creating custom vesa modes. And in fact, the Xorg.0.log file shows > > that it sees the new mode - but it doesn't use it. > > > > The VirtualBox docs note that for Linux to use such a mode, you have > > to provide a "vga" command line option with the new mode # in it to > > the linux kernel. None of the FreeBSD boot parameters seem applicable > > here. > > > > Basically, the question is - what do I have to do to get the X.org > > vesa driver to use a non-standard vesa mode on FreeBSD? Is there any > > other information I can attach that might help with this? > > Maybe you need to add a correct ModeLine to your xorg config file ? > > A quick Google search returned: > http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=59 Yeah, I had seen that. He's not using the vesa driver; he's using the VirtualBox driver (not available for FreeBSD as far as I know). However, I had tried setting the modelines and modes as suggested, and this still doesn't work - the vesa driver reports the new mode, but X never even considers using it. Thanks, http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org