FreeBSD-5.4 PreRelease vs HP OmniBook XE2

[Stacey Roberts]

Hello,
I've just installed and upgraded an HP OmniBook XE2 laptop to FreeBSD-5.4 PreRelease here 
and find that I can't get the default install of xorg to run at 800x600.

I used to have FreeBSD-4Stable up until a week ago, which I decided to reinstall to version 5
after hitting problems updating to the latest Gnome.

I've tried using the same settings for depth / resolution that "just worked" using XFree86, but the screen just starts to look as if its going to "melt" with the strange look the tft screen takes on after running startx.

Here's the screen section with the XFree86 settings that used to work in FreeBSD-4Stable:

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     "pci_burst"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "fifo_conservative"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "fifo_moderate"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "fifo_aggressive"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "pci_retry"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "set_mclk"                  # <freq>
        #Option     "show_cache"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWCursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWCursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
        #Option     "ByteSwap"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Interlaced"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseBIOS"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ZoomOnLCD"                 # [<bool>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "siliconmotion"
        VendorName  "Silicon Motion, Inc."
        BoardName   "SM810 LynxE"
        Option      "UseBIOS" "off"
        BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     1
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     4
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     8
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     15
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     16
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

These settings just won't work with xorg. This is what works in terms of only 600x480 in xorg:

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     "pci_burst"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "fifo_conservative"         # [<bool>]
        #Option     "fifo_moderate"             # [<bool>]
        #Option     "fifo_aggressive"           # [<bool>]
        #Option     "pci_retry"                 # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoAccel"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "set_mclk"                  # <freq>
        #Option     "show_cache"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWCursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWCursor"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShadowFB"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Rotate"                    # [<str>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"                  # <i>
        #Option     "ByteSwap"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "Interlaced"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseBIOS"                   # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ZoomOnLCD"                 # [<bool>]
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "siliconmotion"
        VendorName  "Silicon Motion, Inc."
        BoardName   "SM810 LynxE"
        BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     1
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     4
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     8
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     15
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     16
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Can anyone assist, please?

If there is any more information I can supply, please let me know.

Thanks for the time.

Regards,

Stacey