On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 01:05:49PM -0700, Catherine Liao wrote: >Hi there, > >I've spent the last two days trying to get X to run on my new Dell C400 laptop >w/ FreeBSD. I was successful in getting X to start in 1024x768x8, but not >higher. I've read that others have been able to get 1024x768x24, and I hope >someone on this list might be able to help me out. > >My xf86config: >http://catacus.com/~catz/docs/help/vesa_xf86config >Log: >http://catacus.com/~catz/docs/help/XFree86.0_log > >I did notice this entry in the log file: >Total Memory: 13 64Kb banks (0M) > >What do I need to do to get X to see more memory? I've patched both i810_drv.o & >agpreg.h w/ the i810diff & i810diff-2 patches. > >Here's the output from dmesg: >http://catacus.com/~catz/docs/help/dmesg > >What am I missing? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
Try using the "i810" driver instead of the "vesa" driver, but you'll likely need a more recent version than 4.2.1 (e.g., the current XFree86 CVS version). You'll also need a more recent version of the FreeBSD i8xx agp patches unless you're using FreeBSD 4.7. I have one at <http://www.xfree86.org/~dawes/fbsd-830-agp.diff>. All of this is necessary to allocate more video memory than your BIOS is reserving. I'm assuming that you don't have a BIOS configuration option to reserve more (some i830 laptops don't). If you do, you could just use that. David _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
