> > 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). 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
