What laptop do you recommend?

Wesley Morgan morganw at chemikals.org
Thu Mar 16 12:55:53 UTC 2006


On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:

> Try to rely completely on auto detection and don't enter any features of
> your monitor in your xorg.conf (such as modes or frequencies). Lately
> the auto detection seems to work much better.

That's how I already have/had it. Turns out the driver needs the 
VM86_INT10CALL option enabled to properly probe the EDID and set up the 
display.
>
> Wesley Morgan wrote:
>>>
>>> You need to add nvidia_load to your /boot/loader.conf file and then run
>>> nvidia-xconfig to update your xorg config file.
>>
>> With the nvidia driver, I end up with only a partial display -- ie, the
>> LCD stretch kicks in and a full 75% or more of the display is "off
>> screen". Haven't been able to figure out why...
>>
>>
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