FreeBSD6, FSC Lifebook E8010, Xorg

[Rainer Duffner]

Oliver Fromme wrote:

>Does the output look reasonable (except that you cannot
>change the resolution)? 
>

i855vidctl: output unreasonable, but changeable
915resolution: output reasonable, but read-only, as it seems.

BTW: the 915resolution-port installs said linux-binary anyway, the 
source-code is ignored by the port, too.


> If it displays weird numbers,
>it didn't detect or locate the mode list in your video
>BIOS correctly.  That's what happened for me with the
>odler version ("855resolution").  The above-mentioned,
>newer one worked for me.
>
>  
>


The 855resolution-program worked only in SuSE9.2.

Can't I just force the silly driver to display 1400x1050, with some 
"yes, I know what I'm doing"-switch?


>If it displays reasonable numbers for you (i.e. those
>standard resolutins like 1024x768 etc.), it located the
>mode list correctly.  But if you still cannot change the
>modes, maybe the video BIOS hasn't been shadowed to RAM
>(i.e. it's running from ROM, so it cannot be modified).
>You might check your BIOS setup and look for an option
>to enable video BIOS shadowing.
>  
>


My "streamlined" FSC-BIOS (a Phoenix-OEM-BIOS) does not have an option 
to do that.
I'll try to send a ktrace....


>I have a collection of links on this issue:
>
>   http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/
>   http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/i855vidctl/
>   http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/
>   http://www.fairlite.demon.co.uk/intel.html
>   http://people.tecnik93.com/~acpi_perf/
>   https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643
>
>The last link (freedesktop.org) is a fairly interesting
>discussion of the whole story.
>  
>

Indeed, thanks for the links.




cheers,
Rainer