Thank you! That did the trick! I then added a minimalistic version of the other sections, and added a fabricated but safe horizontal refresh for the monitor section, and I was able to get a 1280x800 display from the vesa driver.
Do you know if it is possible to get a 1600x900 or even a 1920x1080 display with vesa? I'd like to know the trick for that, or even the docs that cover that. Matthieu Herrb writes: > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 08:53:56PM -0400, Tim Hawes wrote: >> I have NetBSD 6.1 installed on an ASUS laptop. The video card is an >> NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M, and is currently unsupported with xorg's nv >> driver. I would like to get this working with the vesa driver, but have >> come to a dead end with X -configure. >> >> This is the Xorg.o.log: http://pastebin.com/Su60241w[1] >> The output from running X -configure: http://pastebin.com/GLZYeBJq[2] >> And the resulting xorg.conf.new file: http://pastebin.com/bsiMk7k2[3] >> >> Didn't this used to automatically fall back to the vesa driver when >> finding an unsupported card? Just changing nv to vesa in the xorg.conf >> file does not seem to be enough. > > X -configure has been more or less broken for a long time. I'm not > sure if that particular issue was fixed in more recent X servers (the > 1.10 version that you're using -- and I know that NetBSD has reasons > for that) is 2.5 years old; a lot of things have changed since then. > > To manually force the use of the vesa driver just create an new > xorg.conf file with you favourite text editor containing just > > -- Cut -- > Section "Device" > Identifier "Forced vesa driver" > Driver "vesa" > EndSection > > If the X server fails to autoconfigure other aspects (like keyboard > mappings) just add back the corresponding sections. _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
