Hi there, I got a Thinkpad Z61p (http://www.ciao.de/Lenovo_ThinkPad_Z61p_9452__2342038) with a 1920x1200 WUXGA widescreen display driven by an ATI Mobility FireGL V5200 - PCI Express x16 adaptor.
Last weekend I tried to install OpenBSD 4.0 onto this box - everything essential works fine, except that it seems impossible to force the vesa driver of Xorg to work with a (or in particular this) widescreen resolution properly. The highest resolution I got working with the vesa driver was 1600x1200, but this sucks because the 1600 pixels are strechted to 1920 pixels in width. So due the lack of the fglrx driver which works just fine under Linux, the only half-decent workaround resolution was 1152x864 pixels for me, however this is insufficient if you own such a box ;) After I checked those issues with vanilla OpenBSD 4.0 + the shipped Xorg 6.9.x I upgraded to a recent snapshot from http://xenocara.org/ - but I didn't expected any different behavior, because my googling/rtfm already argued that the vesa driver seems to be not designed to work with such wide-screen resolutions (it seems to expect a 4:3 screen format anyways)... I can confirm that it makes no difference if you use Xorg 6.9 or 7.x. The source of the vesa driver is nearly the same btw, so nothing to wonder about. So out of curiosity, does anyone know of a vesa driver patch or of some unofficial hackish fglrx port to OpenBSD? Just wondering, because in Debian I can use fglrx even without loading some restricted kernel modules without dri capabilities... so I'd expect that the 2D part of this driver might work on a vanilla OpenBSD box as well (maybe). Note, the ati Xorg driver does not support the FireGL card. If nothing helps I have to stay with Linux ;(( Regards, -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
