Widescreen on Xorg?

[Vince]

Jay Chandler wrote:
> Howdy.
> I'm relatively new to FreeBSD on the desktop.  I've been burning along
> quite happily for a couple months, but this morning my new Samsung 226BW
> showed up (22 inch widescreen).
> 
> Pretty screen, but running in Xorg and GNOME, I'm limited to a
> resolution that's rather crap (1280x1024 before it starts shifting
> around following the mouse).
> 
> Relevant lines from my xorg.conf:
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>        #DisplaySize      470   300     # mm
>        Identifier   "Monitor0"
>        VendorName   "SAM"
>        ModelName    "SyncMaster"
>        ModeLine     "1680x1050" 119.0 1680 1728 1760 1840 1050 1053 1059
> 1080
> ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
>        HorizSync    30.0 - 81.0
>        VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0
>        Option      "DPMS"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> Section "Device"
>        ### Available Driver options are:-
>        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
>        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
>        ### [arg]: arg optional
>        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "SWcursor"                  # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "ColorKey"                  # <i>
>        #Option     "CacheLines"                # <i>
>        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                   # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "DRI"                       # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "NoDDC"                     # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "ShowCache"                 # [<bool>]
>        #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"              # <i>
>        #Option     "PageFlip"                  # [<bool>]
>        Identifier  "Card0"
>        Driver      "i810"
>        VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
>        BoardName   "945G Integrated Graphics Controller"
>        BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
> EndSection
> 
> 
> And a screen section with no mode settings but a bunch of color depths.
> 

Not certain but... with the i945GM on my laptop it doesnt list the
widescreen modes as available in the video bios and it needed to be set
using 915resolution (sysutils/915resolution) it might be worth your
while installing it and checking the output of 915resolution -l
(i need to use the command /usr/local/bin/915resolution 5c 1440 900 32
to enable 1440x900 on my laptop)

regards,
Vince


> Anyone have any words of wisdom?
>