1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc

[Remington L]

It is also not officially supported by Xorg. I am told by the driver 
developer 6.8.3 will fully support it(hopefully eliminating the need for any 
VBIOS workaround)

On 6/10/05, Craig Kleski <ckleski at mbc.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Friday 10 June 2005 07:27 am, Ben Paley wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 June 2005 23:09, Remington L wrote:
> > > Correction, sorry for the previously post(I'm at work). The problem
> > > lies with the Intel VBIOS not reporting the correct resolution to
> > > Xorg. As a workaround you need to modify the VBIOS and use an
> > > updated i810 driver. Here is the Xorg i810 driver:
> > > http://www.fairlite.demon.co.uk/intel.html
> > > To modify the VBIOS please install and run sysutils/915resolution.
> > > Thank'll fix it!
> >
> > I shouldn't complain because it seems actually to be running at
> > 1280x800 at last (at least, kde display manager tells me so, and
> > Opera reports it using screen.availHeight and screen.availWidth!),
> > but there are a couple of odd things going on...
> >
> > A) I ran 915resolution before doing all the things I did to get it
> > working, resetting all of the 1280x1024 modes to 1280x800. But it
> > only works on the memory copy of the VBIOS, and, indeed, this morning
> > when I rebooted, and still now, 915resolution -l gives three modes at
> > 1280x1024 and none at 1280x800... AND YET my screen is running
> > happily at 1280x800!
> >
> > B) None of my attempts to use the i810 driver came to anything. If I
> > added Chipset "915G" I would get slightly different errors, but never
> > a working screen (though interestingly I managed to get as far as
> > hearing the KDE startup sound even when I couldn't see anything!). My
> > current xorg.conf uses the generic vesa driver.
> >
> > So the two things that I was concentrating on - the VBIOS and the
> > driver, turn out not to have been the real issues at all. Heaven
> > knows *what* the real issues were... it all just goes to show that X
> > configuration is black magic, and I could just as easily have waved a
> > chicken at it for the same result, and probably quicker (though not
> > as cheap, of course).
> >
> > If anyone is interested, I will be glad to send my xorg.conf, and
> > logs and all the rest of it.
> >
> > Thank you all very much for your help! I may be none the wiser, but I
> > am much happier!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ben
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> IIRC, i915 agp is not supported in -stable
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=80396
> 
> Somewhere in this PR is a patch for i915 agp support. Theoretically it
> should allow you to use the i810 driver and not the VESA driver.
> 
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