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Old 26th March 2011
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Default ATI Radeon HD 6250 1366x768 resolution problem

Hello there,

I recently purchased Gateway laptop NV51B08

AMD dual core C-50 1.0 GHz, 320GB HD, ATI Radeon HD 6250 graphics.

I am running OpenBSD 4.8_amd64. Everything seems to work including Fn keys. Only think that is not working is the resolution 1366x768 (native)

I did X -configure and load and save the xorg.conf.new to xorg.conf in
/etc/X11. Then edited to set default to 1366x768 even with vesa driver.

It always default to 1024x768. I even tried 1280x768. Whatever I do it will only display 1024x768. xrandr command confirm 1024x768.
Looking in dmesg it appears that this ATI video chip is not supported yet.
I am not looking for 3D support, just to display in native 1366x768 even
with vesa.
Also I did try latest 4.9 snapshot with same results.
It is anything I can do? Or just live with it until ATI chip get supported in
the future releases.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

thank you

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Old 26th March 2011
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You will have to use the vesa driver. While I don't think it will work (simply because 1366x768 is not a vesa mode), you can try creating a modeline with cvt or gtf , adding that to the Monitor section and then adding the defined mode to the Display subsections.

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Unfortunately adamk is correct, that chipset is in the Evergreen family.. open source support for that is relatively recent and I believe only KMS modesetting exists for it, on Linux.

It would have been possible to get modesetting and basic 2D/Xv had this been an r600/r700 based IGP.. i.e: Radeon HD <= 4xxx.
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Forcing VESA modes isn't really possible, the only way to get it to work is to find a way to add it to the BIOS table somehow.. it's indeed frustrating when the vendor doesn't have the native resolution in the table.

There are BIOS updates available, maybe you'll get extremely lucky..
http://support.gateway.com/us/en/pro...5&modelId=3503
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Code:
vendor "Attansic Technology", unknown product 0x1083 (class network subclass ethernet, rev 0xc0) at pci3 dev 0 function 0 not configured
If you're curious, your Ethernet card is supported in -CURRENT and.. it also made it into 4.9.
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adamk and BSDfan666,
Thanks for all the help. That is what I was suspecting with the ATI chip.

BSDfan666 thanks for the info on the BIOS updates. I did check them.
I would have to install Windows 7 back on it to , because I don't think you
could flash the BIOS from OpenBSD.
I am just gonna live with it for now. Hopefully OpenBSD 5.0 might have the
Xenocara with support for the ATI RADEON HD 6250 chip.
I am rather willing to wait. Switching to linux or windows doesn't sounds good to me. I really like OpenBSD to give it up

thanks again
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It seems the BIOS update includes a DOS updater, all you need to do is create a bootable CD or USB drive to flash.

Realistically though, vendors rarely add new features to BIOS updates, generally it just consists of CPU microcode updates/bugfixes and support for replacement components in newer hardware revisions (..LCD panels mostly).

If you can't tolerate the non-native VESA resolution, dual-booting with something else does seem to be your only option.

Good luck.
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