Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 13:36:54 +0000 From: Craig Kleski <ckleski@mbc.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> Subject: Re: 1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc Message-ID: <200506101336.55019.ckleski@mbc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200506100827.53946.ben@spooty.net> References: <200506071529.47798.ben@spooty.net> <fe18b2280506091509583f3800@mail.gmail.com> <200506100827.53946.ben@spooty.net>
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On Friday 10 June 2005 07:27 am, Ben Paley wrote: > On Thursday 09 June 2005 23:09, Remington L wrote: > > Correction, sorry for the previously post(I'm at work). The problem > > lies with the Intel VBIOS not reporting the correct resolution to > > Xorg. As a workaround you need to modify the VBIOS and use an > > updated i810 driver. Here is the Xorg i810 driver: > > http://www.fairlite.demon.co.uk/intel.html > > To modify the VBIOS please install and run sysutils/915resolution. > > Thank'll fix it! > > I shouldn't complain because it seems actually to be running at > 1280x800 at last (at least, kde display manager tells me so, and > Opera reports it using screen.availHeight and screen.availWidth!), > but there are a couple of odd things going on... > > A) I ran 915resolution before doing all the things I did to get it > working, resetting all of the 1280x1024 modes to 1280x800. But it > only works on the memory copy of the VBIOS, and, indeed, this morning > when I rebooted, and still now, 915resolution -l gives three modes at > 1280x1024 and none at 1280x800... AND YET my screen is running > happily at 1280x800! > > B) None of my attempts to use the i810 driver came to anything. If I > added Chipset "915G" I would get slightly different errors, but never > a working screen (though interestingly I managed to get as far as > hearing the KDE startup sound even when I couldn't see anything!). My > current xorg.conf uses the generic vesa driver. > > So the two things that I was concentrating on - the VBIOS and the > driver, turn out not to have been the real issues at all. Heaven > knows *what* the real issues were... it all just goes to show that X > configuration is black magic, and I could just as easily have waved a > chicken at it for the same result, and probably quicker (though not > as cheap, of course). > > If anyone is interested, I will be glad to send my xorg.conf, and > logs and all the rest of it. > > Thank you all very much for your help! I may be none the wiser, but I > am much happier! > > Cheers, > Ben > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" IIRC, i915 agp is not supported in -stable http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=80396 Somewhere in this PR is a patch for i915 agp support. Theoretically it should allow you to use the i810 driver and not the VESA driver.
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