Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2019 08:03:02 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD desktop "best-fit" Dell platform suggestions? Message-ID: <20190403080302.c9707441.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <06447bee-f1d3-6967-f2af-73c68df05351@holgerdanske.com> References: <CANx7MpfDQJEUsjo_SSYqnExagj30NAAD8cPYiR3mDZq_ztor8Q@mail.gmail.com> <43760917-5FAA-4C75-A4D2-923A5EA0E624@council124.org> <2d7ff5f5-603f-004d-31fc-14eef658997e@holgerdanske.com> <06447bee-f1d3-6967-f2af-73c68df05351@holgerdanske.com>
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On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 14:24:39 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > 1. The D945GTP workstation does not seem to support booting from a USB > flash drive partitioned with GPT. It does boot from a SATA SSD > partitioned with MBR. (I seem to recall that it booted from a USB flash > drive formatted with MBR.) Once booted, I installed and/or updated the > xorg and xfce packages. Both X and Xfce work, but maximum graphics > resolution seems to be 1600x1200 (monitor is 1920x1080 and this computer > can do that with Debian). You can try to use a xorg.conf or an entry in xorg.conf.d/ to force a specific screen size that matches the actual physical screen size of the display, if the autodetect magic does not work properly. Use xrandr to experiment within an X session. > 2. The Inspiron laptop boots the GPT USB flash drive. Both X and Xfce > work. Maximum graphics resolution seems to be 1024x768 (screen is > 1280x800 and this computer can do that with Debian). Same here. > The Fn+F8 > (CRT/LCD) hotkey combination switches video between either the screen or > the VGA port (also 1024x768 maximum), but does not drive (mirror) both > simultaneously. This is intended. Older systems often allowed a "3 steps switching" where you could cycle through LCD / LCD+CRT / CRT. Of course there are problems when screen size and aspect ratio are different for LCD and CRT (which isn't a CRT anymore, instead if'ts another LCD with usually different parameters). There is also often a "priority selector" that selects one of the tree (or two) modes mentioned, depending on an external display being connected or not. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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