Hello everybody, this is my first post after a week of Googling and reading up on FreeBSD.
I've managed to do practically everything i need with my new FreeBSD 8 installation on my Acer Aspire 3000 laptop, which is dual-booting with Crunchbang Linux, but one thing has me stumped after Googling and searching I can't find the answer so I thought i'd risk a post here.
I have a Sis graphics card (1200x800) which when using the sis graphics drivers with Xorg leaves the screen with a messed up colour depth in Linux. It's a common problem and there is an easy solution. Just adding video=sisfb to Grub so that the sis framebuffer is used.
I am booting FreeBSD from Grub which is added to /etc/grub.d/40_custom
If anyone can help, I have two possible solutions. Finding where on FreeBSD I add the "video=sisfb" or an alternative to use the sis framebuffer. Or a way to get "vesa" working with a 1200x800 resolution.
I have tried every possible xorg.conf edit I can think of, as well as adding things I found on the forums and other Unix/BSD sites, but all to no avail.
Any help really appreciated.
I've managed to do practically everything i need with my new FreeBSD 8 installation on my Acer Aspire 3000 laptop, which is dual-booting with Crunchbang Linux, but one thing has me stumped after Googling and searching I can't find the answer so I thought i'd risk a post here.
I have a Sis graphics card (1200x800) which when using the sis graphics drivers with Xorg leaves the screen with a messed up colour depth in Linux. It's a common problem and there is an easy solution. Just adding video=sisfb to Grub so that the sis framebuffer is used.
I am booting FreeBSD from Grub which is added to /etc/grub.d/40_custom
Code:
menuentry "freebsd 8.0" {
set root=(hd0,2)
chainloader +1
}
If anyone can help, I have two possible solutions. Finding where on FreeBSD I add the "video=sisfb" or an alternative to use the sis framebuffer. Or a way to get "vesa" working with a 1200x800 resolution.
I have tried every possible xorg.conf edit I can think of, as well as adding things I found on the forums and other Unix/BSD sites, but all to no avail.
Any help really appreciated.