From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 1 07:28:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E16A516A401 for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 07:28:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from victor.engmark@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B61013C44B for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 07:28:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from victor.engmark@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so1693776wra for ; Tue, 01 May 2007 00:28:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=obx9Ny0cAyc2W98SpaOuEotkJikJX02pCyYdxAJtfn3Kjn8ajkTozHGBHqc7+QOMiuRHF8aQXwQYk94TCso5XqAiJrA4VjtYfr8Lz7QVaQAWoPDy7AsX2usaDLhZnVZh59PUJAqHQNEOjsPJli7+gnMbYa88fsRhSJKnQqFA2rU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=EGgRXOzXCzABBh5rzv0/hFYIVyoRZYhLiHxQMD1+nstmOxTqRFwcxRsE3FkbpkP17LIMuJ/CYs85o5eAS09J5w4kFfo43J9wG7oRIRXlwBmLngNwgZ3U7O6pWDjcITszvW3iW6Q26EWg2r2yaPcUyPuaGcNhgU707r+y+B/a+9Q= Received: by 10.115.17.1 with SMTP id u1mr2308329wai.1178004507456; Tue, 01 May 2007 00:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.79.14 with HTTP; Tue, 1 May 2007 00:28:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7d4f41f50705010028o319c543aj4c57f4e2edb9cf8d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 09:28:27 +0200 From: "Victor Engmark" To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" In-Reply-To: <20070501005104.GA44188@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <7d4f41f50704300202y366d468cu61a81b27786130c8@mail.gmail.com> <20070501005104.GA44188@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates? 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: Tue, 01 May 2007 07:28:29 -0000 On 5/1/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > On Monday, 30 April 2007 at 11:02:54 +0200, 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 > > > > > 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. > > This, along with the follow-ups, reminds me of a problem I had with a > Dell Inspiron 5100 some years ago. In that case, X didn't map the > video BIOS correctly, and so it wasn't able to read the information > from the BIOS. The information includes things like the panel > geometry, which in my case was being reported as 65535x65535 pixels. > In your case we have: > > > # From Xorg.0.log > > DisplaySize 286 214 > > That's clearly wrong too. It's equal to the values in the documentation, rounded off to integers. See > http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jul2003.html#25 for more details. > It's worth mentioning that the problem was fixed in a later version of > the system, and I can now install X on it with no problems. > > If this looks familiar, a couple of suggestions: > > 1: Try XFree86. Maybe that will work better. I'm a bit reluctant to straying away from the recommended setup on my work machine. Besides, isn't the code base for this and X.org still very similar? 2: Get hold of the latest Knoppix CD and see if that works. If it > does, it might help fix the problem under FreeBSD. Do you mean running Xorg -configure and see if it gives the right information? If not, could you elaborate a bit? Thanks! > 3: Use the method I described in my diary to build a server with a > static version of the video BIOS. I'm not a C hacker, so I think this is a bit too far off. PS to Erik O: Your return address is invalid. -- Victor Engmark Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds profound