Dell M4400 && Xorg-vesa && 1920x1200 res?

[Robert Noland]

On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 14:52 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Thursday, May 14, 2009 a las 04:51:34PM +0200, Stefan Ehmann escribió:
> 
> > On Thursday 14 May 2009 10:46:17 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've a brand new Dell M4400 laptop running CURRENT; the nVidia
> > > Corporation Quadro FX 770M
> > > ship is currently not fully supported by the nouveau driver and I'm
> > > bound to 'vesa' driver for that, at least for the moment. The resolution
> > > of the laptop is normally 1920x1200, but 'vesa' seems not been willing to
> > > use this res. even if the Xorg.0.log has lines saying that there is an
> > > internal mode like that but not being used:
> > ...
> > > (II) VESA(0): Monitor0: Using default hsync range of 31.50-37.90 kHz
> > > (II) VESA(0): Monitor0: Using default vrefresh range of 50.00-70.00 Hz
> > >
> > > (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1920x1200" (no mode of this name)
> > > ...
> > > (II) VESA(0): Not using built-in mode "1920x1200" (hsync out of range)
> > 
> > Adding a custom modeline and/or adjusting the hsync/vrefresh values should fix 
> > this. I'd guess the fallback to the default hsync/vrefresh values is the 
> > problem.
> > 
> > Booting a linux live CD might provide some usable values.
> 
> Yes, this worked; but it was terrible slow on window movements;
> I've got a small fix for the driver x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv and the
> card is now working as it should with the 'nv' module.

What patch?  If it needs review and committing upstream, please send it
to me...

robert.

> Thanks in any case
> 
> 	matthias
-- 
Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
FreeBSD
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