Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 09:28:27 +0200 From: "Victor Engmark" <victor.engmark@gmail.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates? Message-ID: <7d4f41f50705010028o319c543aj4c57f4e2edb9cf8d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070501005104.GA44188@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <7d4f41f50704300202y366d468cu61a81b27786130c8@mail.gmail.com> <20070501005104.GA44188@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On 5/1/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> 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 > > <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. > > 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<http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latd610/en/ug_en/specs.htm>, 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
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