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Date:      Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:58:28 -0700
From:      Remington L <mrl0lz@gmail.com>
To:        Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net>
Cc:        "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>, Craig Kleski <ckleski@mbc.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc
Message-ID:  <fe18b22805060914585d5439dd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200506092056.20209.ben@spooty.net>
References:  <200506071529.47798.ben@spooty.net> <200506071110.43618.ckleski@mbc.edu> <200506092056.20209.ben@spooty.net>

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This is a common issue. Ben please contact me off the list. I ran into this=
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EXACT same problem. A quick fix is a port of 810resolution. I submitted it=
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for commit into ports a month ago but still not in the tree. Again contact=
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me off the list and ill give you everything you need( Sorry if you dont Ill=
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forget to send you all the stuff when I get home)

On 6/9/05, Ben Paley <ben@spooty.net> wrote:=20
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> > > I'm running 5.4 on my shiny new dell inspiron 6000 - there are a few
> > > things yet to sort out, and one of them is X. Amazing. In winxp it
> > > runs at 1280x800, 16bit (I think, or 24? can't remember off-hand, i'd
> > > be happy with 8 for the moment!). And it seems I need the i810
> > > Generic driver from xorg.
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> > You might need
> > agp_load=3D"YES"
> >in your /boot/loader.conf . See also
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html
> >(Section 5.4.3.1 <http://5.4.3.1>).
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> Thanks a lot - i think the agp thing may have helped. I compiled it in=20
> instead
> of loading it dynamically
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> > > At the moment, I'm working with no xorg.conf at all! I get 800x600,
> > > not sure of colour depth. But I really want / need to take advantage
> > > of the full screen resolution. I understand I should set things up to
> > > run 915resolution on boot, to teach the vbios about 1280x800. But
> > > I've yet make or find an xorg.conf that even gives me a display.
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> > You may want to check /etc/X11/Xorg.0.log to see if any 1280x800 modes
> > are recognized. If not, you may need to use 855patch:
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> I think this is what 915resolution does for me.
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> > ModeLine "1280x800" 71.0 1280 1328 1360 1440 800 802 808 823
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> Thanks for this.
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> > Use the i810 driver.
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> Weirdly, although everyone says to use i810, I could only make it work=20
> with
> the vesa driver!
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> Anyway, thanks a lot both of you - between you and some more googling I
> finally seem to have got it going!
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> Thanks,
> Ben
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