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Date:      Sat, 12 Oct 2002 00:25:34 -0700
From:      Catherine Liao <cliao@med.stanford.edu>
To:        freebsd_questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   dell c400 w/ i830m on freebsd w/ xfree86 4.2.1 using the vesa driver
Message-ID:  <20021012072534.GB15484@med.stanford.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20021011200549.GA10205@med.stanford.edu>
References:  <20021011200549.GA10205@med.stanford.edu>

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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. 

Here's the screen section from my XF86Config:
Section "Screen"
    Identifier  "Screen 1"
    Device      "* Generic VESA compatible"
    Monitor     "My Monitor"
    DefaultDepth 24
    DefaultFbBpp 32

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       8
        Modes       "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       16
        Modes       "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
	FbBpp	    32
        Modes       "1024x768"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection
EndSection

Here's the error message I receive:
Total Memory: 13 64Kb banks (0M)
(EE) VESA(0): No matching modes
(II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
(II) UnloadModule: "ddc"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a
(II) UnloadModule: "int10"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libint10.a
(II) UnloadModule: "vbe"
(II) Unloading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvbe.a
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found


It seems odd to me that X sees a very small amount of memory: "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're the complete config, log, & dmesg:
http://catacus.com/~catz/docs/help/vesa_xf86config
http://catacus.com/~catz/docs/help/XFree86.0_log
http://catacus.com/~catz/docs/help/dmesg

What am I missing? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

-Catherine Liao
Sr. Systems Administrator
IRT, School of Medicine
Stanford University




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