Bug 2417

Summary: Intel 855 onboard video bios incorrectly reports resolutions.
Product: xorg Reporter: Samson L <judged00m>
Component: Driver/intelAssignee: Alan Hourihane <alanh>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: FreeBSD   
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Description Samson L 2005-01-29 13:42:18 UTC 
The Intel 855 video bios has a problem and Xorg cannot go around it. I have a
Dell 700M that has this video card and the resolution of the panel is 1280x800.
I cannot get Xorg to display that resolution. My research has shown that this is
caused because the Intel Vbios does not correctly report resolutions to Xorg.
There is a walkaround for this problem on Linux with the help of a patch that
modifies memory of the video bios tempoarilly allowing it to display any resolution.

I setup Xorg using the Intel 810 driver which should theoretically work because
it is almost the same card and that did not help either. I can completely
comment out all other available resolution in xorg.conf and it will still
display only 1024x768

The patch for linux can be found here 
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/apoirier/


Someone in the BSD community attempted to port this patch to BSD without
success, it does not compile and it does not install.

Please look into this as this is a somewhat serious problem. The most important
thing(visual interface) required to use a computer is somewhat not functioning.

The only resolution that is displayed but the Video card is 1024x768.

I have tried almost everything, modelines and other peoples conf files still no
luck.
Comment 1 Alan Hourihane 2005-02-27 11:30:43 UTC 
Can you post your X log file ?
Comment 2 Samson L 2005-02-27 12:00:32 UTC 
Created attachment 1982 [details]
Log file for xorg
Comment 3 Samson L 2005-02-27 12:01:01 UTC 
Created attachment 1983 [details]
My Xorg.conf file
Comment 4 Samson L 2005-02-27 12:02:29 UTC 
I included my xorg.conf file as well so you can take a look at my settings. As
far as I understand this is everything that should make it theoretically work.
But it doesnt.

If you have any additional questions or would like to chat over AIM I am alwaysa
available. Just email for info.

I want to get this resolved, and help others who have the same problem.
Comment 5 Alan Hourihane 2005-03-01 05:35:53 UTC 
Can you try the driver at..

http://www.fairlite.demon.co.uk/intel.html

but make sure you are running X.Org 6.8.x and upload another log.
Comment 6 Samson L 2005-03-01 11:35:17 UTC 
Created attachment 2000 [details]
This is my new Log file

DUDE YOU ARE THE MAN.

IT WORKS at full res 1280x800 and it works flawlessly. KDE reports its running
at 100hz refresh but that isnt possible because the screen is only capable of
65.

THANK MAN.

If you need anything else keep emailing.


Thanks again.
Comment 7 Alan Hourihane 2005-03-01 11:45:33 UTC 
Closing.

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