Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 14:02:54 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Marc Frajola <ayleronn@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 on a Compaq Presario V2000 (V2570NR) Message-ID: <20060129030254.GN2341@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20060128224712.99410.qmail@web37807.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060128224712.99410.qmail@web37807.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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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
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