[Bug 2417] New: Intel 855 onboard video bios incorrectly reports resolutions.

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           Summary: Intel 855 onboard video bios incorrectly reports
                    resolutions.
           Product: xorg
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: FreeBSD
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Driver/other
        AssignedTo: xorg-bugzilla-noise at freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: judged00m at verizon.net


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.          
     
     
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