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.
Can you post your X log file ?
Created attachment 1982 [details] Log file for xorg
Created attachment 1983 [details] My Xorg.conf file
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.
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.
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.
Closing.
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