i915GM at 1280x768 on external monitor

Eric Anholt eric at anholt.net
Tue Sep 12 13:13:39 PDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 10:48 -0400, Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> I've gotten lost in the various branches and work in progress.
> 
> I want to run the VGA port of my 915GM based laptop at 1280x768. I don't 
> really care what happens on the LCD. It can be off, it can run in 
> virtual mode.
> 
> I've tried variations of xorg.conf, I've tried hard coding my res into 
> the bios detection code. Still no success.
> 
> Is there anything known to work?

The modesetting branch should definitely work if you've got
MonitorLayout "CRT", and may work like you want even without that.  If
not, file a bug with the xorg.conf and log.

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Eric Anholt                             anholt at FreeBSD.org
eric at anholt.net                         eric.anholt at intel.com
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