Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:37:15 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Jason Barnes <jbarnes@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, "Balaji, Pavan" <pavan.balaji@intel.com> Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2 screen resolutions Message-ID: <20020713030715.GB61459@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020712120045.Y49537-100000@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu> <20020712110818.I49110-100000@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207121248310.53277-100000@wonkity.com> <20020712120045.Y49537-100000@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu> <20020712110818.I49110-100000@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu>
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On Friday, 12 July 2002 at 11:11:43 -0700, Jason Barnes wrote: > > Hi! I am running FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE and am just biting the > bullet to upgrade to XFree86 4.2 for purposes of KDE3. Everything is > working -- except that I can't seem to get the screen to go into any mode > but 640x480 (any color depth). I want to get to 1024x768 (24bit), and I > know this should be possible because it was running that way under XFree86 > 3.3. I would greatly apreciate any insight you might have into this > matter. Here is my XF86Config: > > <snip> On Friday, 12 July 2002 at 12:01:52 -0700, Jason Barnes wrote: > > Aha! The problem was my lack of monitor refresh rates, I guess > the autoconfigure failed to detect them. When I added the lines: > > HorizSync 30.0 - 96.0 > VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 > > to the "Monitor" section all was well. Thank you all for your help! The way to debug this kind of problem is to read the (copious) output produced when starting the X server. It will tell you which resolutions it rejects, and why. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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