From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 22 07:57:37 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 48AE516A421 for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 07:57:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au) Received: from jay.exetel.com.au (jay.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8892143D58 for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 07:57:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au) Received: (qmail 8783 invoked by uid 507); 22 May 2006 17:57:33 +1000 Received: from 28.101.233.220.exetel.com.au (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (220.233.101.28) by jay.exetel.com.au with SMTP; 22 May 2006 17:57:33 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) In-Reply-To: <11993f238957c4571ec9749a674087b6@pacific.net.au> References: <20060521204600.7ec583a8@atomizer.opensourcebeef.net> <11993f238957c4571ec9749a674087b6@pacific.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <79c1b5fa746e47904c3f4a783d1efb88@pacific.net.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Malcolm Fitzgerald Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:57:31 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Cc: Subject: Re: Video mode not supported for LCD monitor 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: Mon, 22 May 2006 07:57:37 -0000 On 22/05/2006, at 12:42 PM, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: > > On 22/05/2006, at 10:46 AM, rod person wrote: > >> On Mon, 22 May 2006 10:36:17 +1000 >> Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: >> >>> I've just replaced my trusty CRT screen with a spunky LCD screen. >>> After the machine boots I don't see the login window. Instead I see a >>> bouncing box that says "Video Mode not Supported". How do I rectify >>> this? >>> >> >> You have to correct your vertical refresh in your xorg.conf. >> I had to add the line: >> VertRefresh 75 >> >> to the monitor section when I went from CRT to LCD. > > That didn't work for me. > > When I use -configure to generate a conf file the Monitor specs seem > to fit my monitor but the monitor won't use it. > > Looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log I can see that it tries all the modes > and says this for each of them: > > (II) NV(0): Mode "1024x768" is larger than BIOS programmed panel size > of 1 x 1. Removing. > (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (unknown reason) > (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "512X384" (bad mode > clock/interlace/doublescan) > > .... > > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > > Funnily enough, when I passed Xorg -config a non-existent config file > name (by accident) it displayed the black and grey grid with the X in > the middle. Editing /etc/ttys so that the system booted to console instead of starting X, then removing the xorg.conf, then running Xorg -configure generated a conf file that worked. It looks the same as the the first one that was generated but the system likes this one better. thanks