I debugged further with a recent OpenBSD 4.1 snapshot and can claim the following:
- plain Xorg vesa drivers don't support widescreen formats (16:9 and 16:10 formats are discussed to be supported _maybe_ in future VESA specs - so people who claim that Xorg's vesa driver works with a 1920x1200 resolution simply can't read the output of xdpyinfo or Xorg.N.log) - FireGL 5200 is a rv530 (x1600) chip derivative. Those chips are not supported by the ati/radeon Xorg drivers - and ATI doesn't provide any documentation. So owners of such cards have no luck if they can't use fglrx - I also tried to get fglrx working using the bits some FreeBSE people already hacked together (namely frglx-freebsd.com), without success (and really if things need linux emulation layer I can simply install linux and good is). Not to mention that frglx-freebsd totally sucks and is a very suckish hack... So I have to stay with Linux because I can't sell and buy another computer (it is simply the notebook of my work). ;((( Regards, Anselm On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 02:52:43PM +0100, Anselm R. Garbe wrote: > 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 > -- Anselm R. Garbe >< http://www.suckless.org/ >< GPG key: 0D73F361
