From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 2 17:21:30 2006 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 AF36016A4DE for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:21:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.187.76.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8C9F43D49 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:21:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k72HKvXL061666 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 2 Aug 2006 18:20:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk from=m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk; sender-id=softfail; spf=neutral X-SenderID: Sendmail Sender-ID Filter v0.2.14 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk k72HKvXL061666 Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id k72HKvv3061665; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 18:20:57 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 18:20:57 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Joshua Lewis Message-ID: <20060802172057.GA61135@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Joshua Lewis , Andrew Gould , Jerry McAllister , tech.junk@verizon.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060802085632.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.6d8590511d.wbe@email.secureserver.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060802085632.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.6d8590511d.wbe@email.secureserver.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:21:12 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.3/1632/Wed Aug 2 15:46:05 2006 on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: Andrew Gould , tech.junk@verizon.net, Jerry McAllister , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing windows XP at home. 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, 02 Aug 2006 17:21:30 -0000 --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:56:33AM -0700, Joshua Lewis wrote: > Other then > personal preference. I have been using enlightenment for about a week > and perhaps it is something I did but my resolution is stuck at > 1600x1280 at 65Hz. My monitor keeps getting mad at me and telling me > that is not the recommended solution. I have been trying to figure out > how to change it and I have updated the xorg.conf as the handbook says > but it still defaults. Unless anyone has an idea why I am going to > switch to fluxbox and see how that feels. Display resolution is independant of the window manager you choose. As you say, you've looked at xorg.conf, and that's the right place to go to fix this problem. The automatic X -config stuff tends to get you the largest screen real-estate that X thinks your graphics card and monitor are capable of supporting. In the past that often meant running at a lower colour depth (which tends not to be a problem nowadays when 64MB is considered a small quantity of graphics memory) or running at a lower refresh rate (much more likely to be a problem). In order to override the resolution presented to you, you can edit the last section in xorg.conf, the "Screen" section. There's two things you can add to this section that help. First you can force the colour depth of the monitor to 24bits. Your graphics card might support 32bits, but that isn't actually any higher colour resolution than 24bits -- the extra 8bits is used for fancy stuff like z-buffering or alpha (transparency). Secondly, you can tell X what your preferred screen resolution is. On my system, I like to run at 1600x1200. The monitor will do 1920x1440 but it's not really a supported resolution according to the manufacturers and the low refresh rate is annoying. So I have the following in my xorg.conf: Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 Modes "1600x1200" "1920x1440" "1280x1024" "1152x864" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 Modes "1600x1200" "1920x1440" "1280x1024" "1152x864" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 Modes "1600x1200" "1920x1440" "1280x1024" "1152x864" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 Modes "1600x1200" "1920x1440" "1280x1024" "1152x864" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "1600x1200" "1920x1440" "1280x1024" "1152x864" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1600x1200" "1920x1440" "1280x1024" "1152x864" EndSubSection EndSection =20 ie. add the 'DefaultDepth 24' and 'Modes ...' lines. The modes lines give alternate resolutions that you can cycle through using Ctrl-Alt-KP_Plus or Ctrl-Alt-KP_Minus (ie + or - from the numeric keypad, not the ones on the top row of the main set of keys). Also, look at /var/log/Xorg.N.log which will tell you what modes your system thinks are workable, even if you put something a little too ambitious in the config file. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE0N758Mjk52CukIwRApgoAJ9uXjmFGeva0n+NL+lkQt9ncY40fwCfRG1y xKO+xTAKEPfSPXs5cNccZZw= =nkdp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--