915resolution failure on 6.1

Lars Engels lars.engels at 0x20.net
Tue Aug 22 12:24:22 UTC 2006


Quoting Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka at mhoenicka.de>:

> Hi all,
>
> I've spent the last few days upgrading an MSI 260 (Centrino, 915GM,
> 1280x800 screen) laptop to FreeBSD 6.1 from 5.4, using a binary
> upgrade for the system itself and the portupgrade tool for the
> installed ports and packages. I had previously used the vesa driver
> which still works ok, but rumours say Xorg 6.9 supports the 915GM
> chipset by means of the i810 driver.
>
> Googling told me I'd have to switch on agp support during booting,
> load the dri module in my xorg.conf, and select the i810
> driver. Google also told me that I'd have to use the 915resolution
> tool to trick the BIOS into believing there is something like a
> 1280x800 resolution.
>
> This is where the trouble starts. Running 915resolution as root simply
> results in:
>
> error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: ELF file OS
> ABI invalid
>
> The docs tell me that the tool is a Linux app that uses the Linux ABI,
> and brandelf indeed reports it is a Linux binary. I have the Linux ABI
> installed and it is properly initialized during startup. I don't have
> any weird modifications in my library paths. Specifically,
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set.
>


Hi Markus,

do other Linux apps run properly? Do you have linux_enable="YES" in  
your /etc/rc.conf?
Have you installed the 915resolution tool manually or via the port?


Lars



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