From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 29 03:02:57 2006 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 8480D16A420 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 03:02:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail25.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail25.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.133.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B0D43D45 for ; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 03:02:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c220-239-19-236.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.19.236]) by mail25.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k0T32st9015646 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:02:54 +1100 Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0T32sH4005130; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:02:54 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k0T32sOU005129; Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:02:54 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:02:54 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy To: Marc Frajola Message-ID: <20060129030254.GN2341@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20060128224712.99410.qmail@web37807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060128224712.99410.qmail@web37807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on a Compaq Presario V2000 (V2570NR) 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: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 03:02:57 -0000 On Sat, 2006-Jan-28 14:47:12 -0800, Marc Frajola wrote: >The Presario V2570NR is an AMD Turion 64bit mobile >1.8GHz processor with 512MB RAM, ATI Radeon Xpress >200M graphics (which *appears* to borrow 128M from >system RAM), It does borrow RAM. In my case, the aperture is set to 128MB but the X200M only seems to access 32MB. I haven't checked to see if I can reduce the aperture size. >The second and more formidable hurdle was trying to >get Xorg to work in the native display resolution of >1280x768. The problem is apparently that Xorg can >auto-configure VESA, which winds up choosing 1024x768, >and the aspect ratio of the display is quite wrong >since V2000s are widescreen. The X200M is supported in X.org 6.9.0. In my case, the screen size is correctly detected so upgrading may solve your problems. -- Peter Jeremy