From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 16 07:16:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68AE116A41F for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:16:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eam404@earthlink.net) Received: from fed1rmmtao03.cox.net (fed1rmmtao03.cox.net [68.230.241.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1006F43D46 for ; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:16:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eam404@earthlink.net) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (really [24.250.141.71]) by fed1rmmtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20051116071627.QIX20875.fed1rmmtao03.cox.net@[192.168.1.101]>; Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:16:27 -0500 Message-ID: <437ADCF2.4090801@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:17:06 -0600 From: Eric Murphy User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Malcolm Kay References: <437ABD20.90001@earthlink.net> <200511161745.05117.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200511161745.05117.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intresting X Question... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:16:57 -0000 Malcolm Kay wrote: >On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:31 pm, Eric Murphy wrote: > > >>Maybe some body can explain this alittle better then my google >>searchs and other readings. >> >>My question is this: Lets say your installing BSD on some >>workstation, you dont know the hardware specs of the monitor >>(Vertical and Horizontal rates ect..) and you need to >>configure Xorg. Its my understanding that Xorg runs getconfig, >>which determines the video card type and monitor type. Once it >>has that information it applys the information gatherd to the >>xorg config. Is that how it works? I was going to say, it cant >>just test a bunch of differnt monitor rates that could cause >>damage to the monitor. >> >> >> > >Most modern monitors respond to Xorg's enquiry over an I2C bus >as to its capabilities. >If this doesn't work then maybe: >* The monitor is too old. >* The monitor doesn't subscribe to the 'standards'. >* Somehow the I2C bus is not working. >* The monitor manufacturer was overly optermistic when setting >up the information base for reporting over I2C > >It is not a trial and error situation. > >Malcolm > > > >>However today in one of our labs I installed bsd on a machine >>and was unable to get xorg working properly becuase getconfig >>wasnt issueing the correct H and V rates for the monitor, I >>didnt know what to do without having to look it up. Anyway if >>someone could explain this process I would be much obliged. >>Thanks >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > If thats the case, why did it work with linux running Xorg? So I guess the main way to do it, if you want to figure out the values, is look at the example xorg.conf and see what values it pulled?