Can anybody change the resolution to 1280x800?

[Janvier Pang]

Is that possible to port the latest fglrx driver (for linux) to freebsd?

This driver works well on my linux platform on the same machine now.

B.Rgds,

Janvier Pang

On 12/29/06, SirDice <sirdice at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> Erik Trulsson wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 10:04:27AM +0800, Janvier Pang wrote:
> >> Bad news...
> >>
> >> But I can not find the supported resolution list as Adam said, how
> could I
> >> know what resolutions my graphic card supported?
> >
> > I believe that 'vidcontrol -i mode' will output a list of all the VESA
> > modes the graphics card provides support for. (And if you are using the
> > 'vesa' driver those are the only modes you can use.)
>
> You do need "options VESA" in the kernel config or the list will be very
> short and lacking the graphics modes.
>
> >> I'll read the document of X.org again carefully, to see if there any
> >> solution for the resolution of my graphic card.
> >
> > I think that ATI provides a proprietary driver for their newer cards
> that
> > is supposed to work with X.org.  (It is probably labeled as being for
> Linux,
> > but that should hoefully not matter since X.org drivers are supposed to
> be
> > OS-neutral.)   I have never tried using ATI's driver so I don't know
> > anything further about it than that it is supposed to exist.
>
> AFAIK this is not the case. There's a reason why NVidia has different
> drivers for Linux, FreeBSD and Sun.
> Again AFAIK the accelerated (proprietary or not) Xorg drivers all need a
> kernel module. This is pretty OS specific.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Remko C.
>
>