Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:56:30 +0200 From: "Victor Engmark" <victor.engmark@gmail.com> To: "rloefgren@forethought.net" <rloefgren@forethought.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates? Message-ID: <7d4f41f50704300756q5bf92641vedb63b1fbae36e89@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070430071110.O27416@auden.jmla.com> References: <7d4f41f50704300202y366d468cu61a81b27786130c8@mail.gmail.com> <20070430071110.O27416@auden.jmla.com>
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On 4/30/07, rloefgren@forethought.net <rloefgren@forethought.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Victor Engmark wrote: > > I'm trying to create a pristine xorg.conf, but I've been unable to > > find proper values for HorizSync and VertRefresh for my Dell Latitude > > D610. > > > > I've tried the values presented in MonitorsDB > > <http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/hwdata/MonitorsDB?view=markup > > > > for "Dell 1400x1050 Laptop Display Panel", which are HorizSync > > 31.5-90.0 and VertRefresh 59.0-75.0, but I get a warning in > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log for both of them saying they are "not within DDC > > ranges." > > > > I've tried looking around the Dell web pages, but I haven't found any > > pages mentioning these parameters (not too surprising, really). > > > > I've tried to leave these settings out, but even then I get a warning: > > (WW) I810(0): config file hsync range 60-66.3158kHz not within DDC hsync > > ranges. > > > > I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the other warnings I get > > during startup: > > (WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum > > and > > (WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f05 failed. > > > > It seems that a DDC (or, apparently, DDS) query should be able to > > determine these numbers, but > > cd /usr/ports && make search name=ddc && make search name=dds > > doesn't give any tools to deal with this. > > > > The relevant part of /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > > > > Section "Monitor" > > Identifier "Dell Latitude D610 monitor" > > VendorName "SEC" > > ModelName "3450" > > # From Xorg.0.log > > DisplaySize 286 214 > > Option "DPMS" > > EndSection > > Get the info off any labels you might find on your monitor and go to: > www.monitorworld.com > > You might get lucky > Thanks, but no luck. There are no labels (it's a laptop screen), and the Dell product page<http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?sku=R6313>doesn't provide any useful information. Too bad MonitorWorld doesn't allow indexing <http://monitorworld.com/robots.txt>, or it would actually be searchable (their search sucks). -- Victor Engmark Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds profound
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