Xorg configure unsupported card

[Tim Hawes]

Thank you! That did the trick! I then added a minimalistic version of
the other sections, and added a fabricated but safe horizontal refresh
for the monitor section, and I was able to get a 1280x800 display from
the vesa driver.

Do you know if it is possible to get a 1600x900 or even a 1920x1080
display with vesa? I'd like to know the trick for that, or even the docs
that cover that.

Matthieu Herrb writes:

> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 08:53:56PM -0400, Tim Hawes wrote:
>> I have NetBSD 6.1 installed on an ASUS laptop. The video card is an
>> NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M, and is currently unsupported with xorg's nv
>> driver. I would like to get this working with the vesa driver, but have
>> come to a dead end with X -configure.
>> 
>> This is the Xorg.o.log: http://pastebin.com/Su60241w[1]
>> The output from running X -configure: http://pastebin.com/GLZYeBJq[2]
>> And the resulting xorg.conf.new file: http://pastebin.com/bsiMk7k2[3]
>> 
>> Didn't this used to automatically fall back to the vesa driver when
>> finding an unsupported card? Just changing nv to vesa in the xorg.conf
>> file does not seem to be enough.
>
> X -configure has been more or less broken for a long time. I'm not
> sure if that particular issue was fixed in more recent X servers (the
> 1.10 version that you're using -- and I know that NetBSD has reasons
> for that) is 2.5 years old; a lot of things have changed since then. 
>
> To manually force the use of the vesa driver just create an new
> xorg.conf file with you favourite text editor containing just 
>
> -- Cut --
> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier "Forced vesa driver"
> 	Driver "vesa"
> EndSection
>
> If the X server fails to autoconfigure other aspects (like keyboard
> mappings) just add back the corresponding sections.