How to configure a desired screen resolution

Arto Pekkanen isoa at kapsi.fi
Thu Oct 16 18:49:13 UTC 2014


Maybe there is a workaround .... have you tried 10.1-RC kernel and userland with the new X.org stack?

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/A88XMA/ <-- this gives me the idea that the integrated GPU/APU might be Radeon 6xxx compatible ...

https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics <-- here it says that Radeon 6xxx series should work if you can cope without suspend/resume

Just a moment ago the old 1.7 X.org graphics stack was obsoleted in favor of the new 1.12 X.org and KMS drivers.

If vesa is problematic then maybe the new gfx stack might work better. If you install X.org with pkg from official repository, you get the new X.org.

On 16.10.2014 2:11, Jin Guojun wrote:
> The latest xorg 1.7.7 seems too smart to configure. It always uses what it thinks and ignores what xorg.conf file tells to do.
> 
> 
> I am using Vesa driver on 8.4-R / 10.1-RC amd kernel on the same hardware (ASUS A88XM-A motherboard) and experienced this difficulty.
> 
> Two monitors: one has 1600x900 resolution and the other has 1920x1080 res.
> When attaching 1600x900 monitor to the system, xorg-1.7.7 X server configures the screen as 1600x900, which is nice and it is what I wanted.
> When connecting 1920x1080 monitor to the system, X server configures screen as 1920x1080, which is correct, but is will not give 1600x900 resolution regardless if the Modes "1600x900" is in Screen section in xorg.conf file.
> 
> If attaching both monitors to the system, then both monitors will be configured as 1600x900, thus both monitors are capable to work in 1600x900 resolution.
> 
> Now, how to tell (force) X server to use 1600x900 resolution for the 1920x1080 monitor?
> 
> -Jin 
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