Hello!

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 06:54:10PM +0000, Martijn van Buul wrote:
> It occurred to me that Luc DESFOSSES wrote in gmane.os.netbsd.general:
> > Thanks for your answer, 
> >
> > The screen is a 1400*1050 tft
> > I'm searching all over the net to find the 2 value... :)
> 
> You probably won't need them. The autoconfig routine probably 
> mis-matches  your TFT panel, and apperently selects a default 
> resolution which your panel doesn't quite understand - it likely 
> selects a "normal" 4:3 resolution, instead of your widescreen 
> resolution. I've seen it happen before.

But 1400*1050 is a 4:3 ratio ....

> What you could do is run
> 
> XFree86 -configure
> 
> like you did before, and edit the generated XF86Config.new file.
> What you should do is modify the "screen" section, and add a line
> reading 
> 
> Modes	    "1400x1050"
> 
> to the appropriate subsection, so that it gets to read
> 
> 	Subsection  "Display"
> 		Viewport    0 0
> 		Modes	    "1400x1050"
> 		Depth	    8
> 	EndSubSection.
> 
> I don't know what default depth xf86cfg expects (Probably 8bpp), but I would
> add such a Modes line to every "Display" subsction, just in case.
> 	
> After that, run
> 
> xf86cfg -xf86config ~/XF86Config.new
> 
> If that doesn't help, I think you should post more information. Especially
> the contents of /var/log/XFree86.?.log, as noone will be able to help you
> any more without more details.

This will definitely help the list.

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Bye, Martin

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