Xorg help

Niclas Zeising zeising at freebsd.org
Thu Jan 31 14:01:42 UTC 2013


On 01/31/13 14:50, uki wrote:
> 2013/1/31 Niclas Zeising <zeising at freebsd.org>:
>> This should have been sent to x11@ instead.
>> On 01/31/13 14:20, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>> long time ago  with CRT monitors i used xvidtune and defined my modeline
>>> based on existing one.
>>>
>>> With LCD laptop Xorg automatically selected good one.
>>>
>>> Now with desktop and new LG monitor capable of 1920x1080 it uses 1024x768
> 
> You probably are using vesa driver, which is limited to 1024x768 max
> 
>>> What driver should i use with Atom D525? xf86-video-intel29 is the only
>>> one that works, in spite of market as not supported.
> Citing https://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU
>  "Required usermode components are available in the ports tree, you
> need to add WITH_NEW_XORG=true and WITH_KMS=true to /etc/make.conf. "
> 
> the driver you should use is xf86-video-intel (rebuild X/kernel if you
> just changed make.conf)
> 
> I'm not sure if this is reqired, but my kernel has device i915kms and
> device drm. With this configuration intel works perfectly.

If they are not in the kernel configuration file, they will be loaded as
modules when xorg is started.
Regards!
-- 
Niclas Zeising


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