On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 01:43:33PM -0500, taxman wrote:
> On Saturday 08 March 2003 06:33 am, Miroslaw J. Wiechowski wrote:
>
> > The system installation program does not give me any
> > working configuration. The best I could get was some
> > ugly display with standard VGA, configured by XFree86 -configure.
> >
> > Did anyone succeed with this Intel i810e chip and 1024x768
> > resolution at all?
>
> Getting hardware detection working well for every single chipset out there is
> pretty tough. The i810 is pretty common, but pretty wacky too it seems.
>
> This'll sound funny, but try knoppix. It has amazing hardware autodetection.
> Boot with it then save your Xfree config file (it's in the same place) to
> floppy or something. Copy that over to FreeBSD and it'll likely work once
> you've followed the other suggestions people have had. You may need to edit
> out some of the font dir's that aren't installed on your FreeBSD system, but
> that should be about it.
>
> get knoppix at:
> http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
> or google for knoppix mini iso, as there are some of those out there for a
> smaller download.
>
> Anyway that's how i finally got my Xfree config to work perfectly with my
> monitor/video card
>
I assume that "knoppix" fits onto a CDROM.... (without having
checked). IIRC (and who knows?) I believe I had my i815 working
at 1280x1024 before my 17" tube went south--(bad v. regulator)--
and I had to use a 15" generic CRT at 1024x768.
With the expertise that has been share around on this list
re the i810, I've got my /etc/XF86Config working at 1024x768.
(I'll share it with anyone who wants or post it on my website
and give the URL....)
I have a 19" tube now, and would like to drive it at a higher
resolution. Nothing I seem to know, tho, seems to get me more
than 1024x768.
(??)
gary
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