Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:10:07 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> To: "Manuel Trujillo (TooManySecrets)" <toomany@toomany.net> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with resolution in VESA mode with HP 8200 desktop Message-ID: <CAN6yY1viaLjZXng1-Rq2yK=F7-BVjbS5dTEu27UaOhQj1W-2%2BQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFhf0awhoDoquCOv7SdEavhhYVV%2BaEhZPxFRpk6_%2BehEd3Gceg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFhf0awhoDoquCOv7SdEavhhYVV%2BaEhZPxFRpk6_%2BehEd3Gceg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Manuel Trujillo (TooManySecrets) <toomany@toomany.net> wrote: > Hi! > > First, I will apologize about my bad english... > > I've got at work a pc HP 8200 with the "fatidic" Intel Sandy > Bridge/i915/3000 VGA (http://pastebin.com/mt5iB0aH) > > I understand the new Intel drivers are not into the new FreeBSD 9.0 > (now in Beta 3), but why I cannot run in VESA mode with a resolution > of 1920x1080? I only can obtain 1024x768 resolution in VESA mode :-/ > Is it a normal restriction? Sorry but I'm very ignorant about it. > > Here it is the Xorg.0.log of the actual system (a Linux): > http://pastebin.com/Bn03uJ0n > > My problem is also that I cannot make a test, but only with a > live-cd/dvd like pc-bsd. > > Could you help me, please? > Thank you!! As I understand it (and I probably don't), VESA mode will only allow the resolutions offered by BIOS and does not support wide-screen aspect ratios. I have never seen a BIOS that offered VESA support for any resolution greater than 1024x768, so you are stuck for the moment. Work in support for Intel's "HD 3000" graphics, as well as other recent Intel graphics i a work in progress. If you are willing, you can try the development code. It is reported to work on at least some Sandy Bridge chi9ps and no failures are reported. It does lack one important functionality, though. No way to switch from X to a VTY at this time. This is not a problem, but just has yet to be written at this time. The information on this is at http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU. kib does not appear to have updated the patch info on the page recently. You will want to to run the 9.2 patch set and xorg-dev. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com
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