Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 22:02:23 +0000 (UTC) From: dfeustel@mindspring.com To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Acer 1440x900 LCD Displays support in 7.0? Message-ID: <20080308220224.1CFEE8FC25@mx1.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080308224456.75e775de.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:44:56PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:42:48 +0100 > Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de> wrote: > > > Probably not. The radeon driver (automatically loaded by the ati > > driver) doesn't seem to support the X550 directly (man radeon). > > I don'r know about the resolution and stuff, but the radeon driver > supports the X550. Here is a few lines snipped from /var/log/Xorg.0.log: > (--) Chipset ATI Radeon X550 (RV370) 5B63 (PCIE) found > (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon X550 (RV370) 5B63 (PCIE)" (ChipID > = 0x5b63) > root@kg-quiet# pciconf -lv | grep -A 8 drm0 > drm0@pci1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x09641462 chip=0x5b631002 rev=0x00 > hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' > device = 'Radeon X550 Series' > class = display > subclass = VGA > none1@pci1:0:1: class=0x038000 card=0x09651462 chip=0x5b731002 rev=0x00 > hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc' > device = 'Radeon X550 Series - Secondary' > class = display > > This is on a mchine that runs: > root@kg-quiet# uname -a > FreeBSD kg-quiet.kg4.no 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #20: Thu Jan 24 > 00:42:47 CET 2008 root@kg-quiet.kg4.no:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/QUIET > amd64 > > with Xorg: > root@kg-quiet# portversion -v | grep xorg-server > xorg-server-1.4_4,1 = up-to-date with port > > The only special thing i had to do was to specify my mode with > Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" > in /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > without that, my LCD monitor would run in a non-native mode. > > HTH > -- > Regards, > Torfinn Ingolfsen Note that this mb/vc combo worked well at 2048x1546 on a Dell Monitor. But when I plug in the Acer LCD, the monitor displays the message "invalid input" until I change the driver spec to "VESA", and no combination of parameters that I have yet tried makes the monitor work at 1440x900. All of my circles are ellipses as a result.
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