1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc

Ben Paley ben at spooty.net
Thu Jun 9 19:56:26 GMT 2005


> > 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.

> You might need 
>        agp_load="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).

Thanks a lot - i think the agp thing may have helped. I compiled it in instead 
of loading it dynamically

> > 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.

> 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:

I think this is what 915resolution  does for me.

> ModeLine "1280x800" 71.0 1280  1328  1360 1440 800  802  808 823

Thanks for this.

> Use the i810 driver. 

Weirdly, although everyone says to use i810, I could only make it work with 
the vesa driver!

Anyway, thanks a lot both of you - between you and some more googling I 
finally seem to have got it going!

Thanks,
Ben


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