Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:04:39 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= <gerrit@weinberg2.de> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg 7.2->7.3 update and i810/intel driver Message-ID: <20080327010439.E31A84500F@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:16:32 BST." <20080326221632.6a543397.gerrit@weinberg2.de>
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--==_Exmh_1206579879_1134P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:16:32 +0100 > From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= <gerrit@weinberg2.de> > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:18:09 -0700 > "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote: > > KO> > Now everything looks like it should on my monitor. I still don't > KO> > understand where the connected LVDS comes from, though. Moreover, > KO> > I would like to have a possibility to do this xrandr settings > KO> > automatically when starting X. Any hints? > > KO> Put the commands in .xinitrc? Or in your session config if your > KO> setup supports it. > > I'm using kdm for logon, and I would like to set the resolution right > when kdm starts. I found /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc, but this > seems to be an example that is not really executed. Maybe I'll find > something in the docs for kdm (I have a faint remembrance that I knew > all these things some years ago, but I tend to forget things I do not > need frequently). Sorry, but as a Gnome user, I have no idea how to configure this on KDE. But you should be able to enter them in a terminal window and they should work. > KO> xrandr --addmode VGA2 1280x1024 > KO> xrandr --addmode VGA2 1024x768 > KO> xrandr --output VGA2 --mode 1280x1024 > > Hm, if this stuff finally works, I will have a try with 7.3 on my > notebook. I never got it to work properly with beamers so far, because > it always uses the display's resolution fot the external VGA port (and > most beamers do not handle 1600x1050 that well :-). Use xrandr to see what the available outputs are. They vary from card to card. Good luck! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 --==_Exmh_1206579879_1134P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 06/03/2002 iD8DBQFH6vKnkn3rs5h7N1ERAn9vAJ0aDU5GFyD8sofXwb2FZZN9DdDGGACeLmbb uhrI6AM1FSPXqIVwxyLMqhE= =gMyt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1206579879_1134P--
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