From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 25 22:49:21 2002 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 2DC0B37B401 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pioneernet.net (mail.pioneernet.net [207.115.64.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C519943E4A for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:49:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chip@wiegand.org) Received: from chip.wiegand.org [66.114.152.128] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id ACDD2E1E00C0; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:49:17 -0700 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:49:36 -0700 From: Chip Wiegand To: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xfree86 Setup problem continued with changes Message-Id: <20021025224936.74d91841.chip@wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: References: <3DB8D805.5080304@wiegand.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20021025090708.00aaae60@pop51.bellnet.ca> <20021025064112.4d0c0e07.chip@wiegand.org> Organization: Alternative Operating Systems X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary W. Swearingen wrote this stuff on 25 Oct 2002 11:18:53 -0700: > Chip Wiegand writes: > > > It's working now, I did have to set the HorizSync and VertRefresh > > info manually. Seems I recall reading something about X not needing > > those anymore after v4.1.0, but maybe not. > > My /var/log/XFree86.0.log has this line > (II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 50 V max: 160 Hz, H min: 30 H max: 95 > kHz, PixClock max 210 MHz which seems to be related to this nearby > prior line(II) RADEON(0): I2C bus "DDC" initialized. > > Note that the lines have "(II)", not "(**)". > > I suppose that if your monitor supports the I2C/DDC protocol (AKA > PnP?), then X can get the "Ranges" as above and use it. I had > hand-entered the same numbers from the Monitor's spec sheet, so I > don't know if it actually works automatically. It supposedly supports DDC, but I guess it's a bit flakey. Anyway, I manually set the parameters in the XF86Config file, now it's working fine. Thanks, Chip W To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message