FreeBSD7/xorg/radeon: Section "Screen" totally ignored

[Gary Palmer]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:39:30PM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:36:03PM -0400, Gary Palmer wrote:
> 
> > What version of xorg are you using on Linux and on FreeBSD?
> > 
> > X -version
> > 
> > should tell you
> 
> Linux:
> 
> X Window System Version 7.1.1
> Release Date: 12 May 2006
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.1.1
> Build Operating System: UNKNOWN 
> Current Operating System: Linux sarge 2.6.25.2 #1 Fri May 9 14:02:28 CEST
> 2008 i686
> Build Date: 24 January 2008
>         Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>         to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
> 
> ====================
> FreeBSD (default X-server shipped with "official" 7.0):
> 
> X.Org X Server 1.4.0
> Release Date: 5 September 2007
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
> Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386
> Current Operating System: FreeBSD sarge.my.own.domain.no-net 7.0-RELEASE
> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #2: Sat Apr 19 20:53:27 CEST 2008
> root at sarge.my.own.domain.no-net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SARGE i386
> Build Date: 13 February 2008  05:50:12PM
> 
>         Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>         to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
> 
> 
> > I might have missed it in an earlier e-mail, but what resolution does
> > FreeBSD come up in?  
> > 
> > xdpyinfo
> 
> Highest available: 1280x1024
> 
> Under Linux I'm using 800x600 (on the "virtual screen" 1280x1024)

I suspect what you're seeing is that X tries much harder now to
give the best display on a given monitor.  Older X's didn't really
care much and did whatever the config file said.  I don't have
any old X installs lying around to prove that one way or the
other unfortunately.

Have you tried using xrandr ( /usr/ports/x11/xrandr ) to see if you
can reduce the resultion?  It'll probably even work from 
.xinitrc or .xsession

/usr/local/bin/xrandr -mode 800x600 -fb 1280x1024

I think should do what you want.

(note that this would be much better over on freebsd-x11 - this is an
 X problem, not a multimedia problem - Reply-to set appropriately)

Gary