Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-14 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2006/12/14 21:10, Vim Visual wrote: > I don't know where is my xorg.conf! See the 'CONFIGURATION' section and '-configure' command line option in Xorg(1).

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-14 Thread Vim Visual
Hi, I don't know where is my xorg.conf! locate xorg.conf yields /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf.eg /usr/X11R6/man/cat5/xorg.conf.0 In /etc/X11/ it's not to find... What is xorg.conf.eg? Is it an example? Where is reading xorg the configuration for X from?? elachistos% ls /etc/X11/ app-defaults g

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-14 Thread Dimitry Andric
Vim Visual wrote: > Logging as su and without X running I get > > 1280pgm 30 1280 768 > Unable to open /dev/mem: Operation not permitted You must run this before securelevel gets raised. > 3d 1920 1440 is one mode I don't want to use; you have to overwrite > one of them like that > I "guessed"

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-14 Thread Vim Visual
Hi, I would be willing to try this but in spite of not being a C programmer I think this is not the full patch... or is it? Can you provide me with a file newpatch.c? Or do you expect me to merge this with the old c patch? this is too much for a fortran programmer... > > http://www.jail.se/p70

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-14 Thread Vim Visual
Hi... I'm rather stubborn and I've installed o'bsd with an only slice. It remembers me when I took the decision of removing the windows partition and only use linux... it has shown to really pay off. i've learnt a lot. Now it's the turn for o'bsd I have followed your advice, woodchuck and it co

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread Vim Visual
I've asked him several times now to post the exact problems he is having using the port. I'm not going to do so again. hey, Dimitry... I _cannot_ post the problem because I do not have o'bsd any more on this laptop (with the 855 chipset). That's why I do not do it. I cannot reproduce the error

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread Bill Maas
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 22:19 +0100, Vim Visual wrote: > Hi, > > ok... it's taken me blood and sweat but I have succeeded at resizing > (per hand) the linux disk without losing data (!). Qtparted just > didn't work at all. Qtparted is probably a front-end to Parted, which is yet another GNU misgrow

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread Dimitry Andric
Otto Moerbeek wrote: > I'm might be compleetly wrong, but isn't the 915resolution-0.5.2.tgz > package what Vim needs? That's already ported, precompiled and tested > on a variety of harware using that chipset. I've asked him several times now to post the exact problems he is having using the port

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Vim Visual wrote: > ahem... > > any C programmer willing to have a look at the C code to make it o'bsd > compatible? according to Naoki it should be feasible but my > programming knowledge is limited to shell scripting, a bit of python > and fortran... (am a Physicist) > > h

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread Vim Visual
Hi, ok... it's taken me blood and sweat but I have succeeded at resizing (per hand) the linux disk without losing data (!). Qtparted just didn't work at all. I don't know how but I have managed to have now three partitions 1st partition, ~35GB, with ext3 2nd partition, ~35GB no format 3rd partit

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread Vim Visual
ahem... any C programmer willing to have a look at the C code to make it o'bsd compatible? according to Naoki it should be feasible but my programming knowledge is limited to shell scripting, a bit of python and fortran... (am a Physicist) http://www.jail.se/p7010/1280patch-845g-855gm-865g.c :)

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread FUKAUMI Naoki
At Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:07:24 +0100, Vim Visual wrote: > > We would rather have a chance to fix the 915resolution port, if it > > somehow didn't work on your machine, than try to get some weird > > Linux-only program running. > > it's not weird; it's C and it's not only for Linux... it's working >

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread Vim Visual
Hi Dimitry, You should always verify that everything works, before taking any machine into production. :) well, I cannot think of a better verification than installing the OS and look around... googling around for all the system can be rather tedious As others have already said, a separate p

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread Dimitry Andric
Vim Visual wrote: > I cannot afford to have a non-functional (I know this is an > exaggerated statement) production laptop for longer than, say, a few > hours. As a matter of fact I am reinstalling GNU/Linux right now > because I HAVE to work this evening (the installation and set up takes > ~20 mi

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi there, On Dec 13, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Vim Visual wrote: yes... that's probably the solution... gosh... this means that I have to re-install both things... anyway... Nonsense! :-) You can make room on your harddrive by resizing some of your partitions so that OpenBSD fits on it too. All yo

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread Vim Visual
yes... that's probably the solution... gosh... this means that I have to re-install both things... anyway... 2006/12/13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Why don't you just set aside a partiton for OpenBSD and dual-boot until you get your setup to the point that you can work with it? -Rj

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why don't you just set aside a partiton for OpenBSD and dual-boot until you get your setup to the point that you can work with it? -RjH

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread Vim Visual
Hi Dimitry and Gerhard, first of all i apologise but I really was/am in panic... as I said, this is my production laptop, the small little toy in front of which I spend some ~10 hours a day! I have spent quite a few days to learn the fundamentals of o'bsd on a crashbox (this one, an ibm t43p) an

Re: help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread Dimitry Andric
Vim Visual wrote: ... > vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 82852GM AGP" rev 0x02: aperture at > 0xd800, size 0x800 > wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) > wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) > "Intel 82852GM AGP" rev 0x02 at pci0 dev 2 function 1

help! 855 chipset resolution

2006-12-13 Thread Vim Visual
Hi folks and Naoki, I have done it... I have installed o'bsd on my production laptop (fujitsu siemens lifebook p7010) and it seems to work quite nice BUT for one VERY important thing: screen resolution. It's showing 1024x768 whilst the laptop can reach 1280x768 I was aware of this because in GNU/