1280x800 display, i810, 915, etc etc etc

[Remington L]

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!

 On 6/9/05, Remington L <mrl0lz at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> This is a common issue. Ben please contact me off the list. I ran into 
> this EXACT same problem. A quick fix is a port of 810resolution. I submitted 
> it for commit into ports a month ago but still not in the tree. Again 
> contact me off the list and ill give you everything you need( Sorry if you 
> dont Ill forget to send you all the stuff when I get home) 
> 
> On 6/9/05, Ben Paley <ben at spooty.net> wrote: 
> > 
> > > > I'm running 5.4 on my shiny new dell inspiron 6000 - there are a few
> > > > things yet to sort out, and one of them is X. Amazing. In winxp it 
> > > > runs at 1280x800, 16bit (I think, or 24? can't remember off-hand, 
> > i'd
> > > > be happy with 8 for the moment!). And it seems I need the i810
> > > > Generic driver from xorg.
> > 
> > > You might need 
> > > agp_load="YES"
> > >in your /boot/loader.conf . See also
> > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html 
> > 
> > >(Section 5.4.3.1 <http://5.4.3.1/>).
> > 
> > Thanks a lot - i think the agp thing may have helped. I compiled it in 
> > instead
> > of loading it dynamically
> > 
> > > > At the moment, I'm working with no xorg.conf at all! I get 800x600,
> > > > not sure of colour depth. But I really want / need to take advantage
> > > > of the full screen resolution. I understand I should set things up 
> > to
> > > > run 915resolution on boot, to teach the vbios about 1280x800. But 
> > > > I've yet make or find an xorg.conf that even gives me a display.
> > 
> > > You may want to check /etc/X11/Xorg.0.log to see if any 1280x800 modes
> > > are recognized. If not, you may need to use 855patch: 
> > 
> > I think this is what 915resolution does for me.
> > 
> > > ModeLine "1280x800" 71.0 1280 1328 1360 1440 800 802 808 823
> > 
> > Thanks for this.
> > 
> > > Use the i810 driver.
> > 
> > Weirdly, although everyone says to use i810, I could only make it work 
> > with 
> > the vesa driver!
> > 
> > Anyway, thanks a lot both of you - between you and some more googling I
> > finally seem to have got it going!
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Ben
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