Date: 18 May 2002 12:10:38 +0100 From: "S. Roberts" <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do I set the resolution for a new monitor? Message-ID: <1021720239.306.27.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> In-Reply-To: <20070518040119.GA37439@altair.mukappabeta.net> References: <OF0B8CD311.82EB6127-ON88256BBC.0074C56E-88256BBC.007503FE@simrad.no> <1021670265.751.6.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <20070518013752.GA25364@altair.mukappabeta.net> <1021687406.306.10.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <20070518040119.GA37439@altair.mukappabeta.net>
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Hi,
Thanks for the advice.
I looked at those sections in /etc/XF86Config, but there isn't a field /
variable called "DefaultDepth" anywhere that I can set to our suggested
values.
I've included the graphics and display sections of the config file for
you guys. Please tell me what it is that I have to reset here. The
monitor was okay last night, but today, its starting to give me grief to
look at for long periods now.
This *can't* be this difficult, and I wish I knew the secret switches
and magic to get this to work as its supposed to. The monitor and
graphics cards aren't exactly exotic by any stretch. Someone please
help.
Stacey
File section:
# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of graphics device sections may be present
# Standard VGA Device:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Chipset "generic"
# VideoRam 256
# Clocks 25.2 28.3
EndSection
# Sample Device for accelerated server:
# Section "Device"
# Identifier "Actix GE32+ 2MB"
# VendorName "Actix"
# BoardName "GE32+"
# Ramdac "ATT20C490"
# Dacspeed 110
# Option "dac_8_bit"
# Clocks 25.0 28.0 40.0 0.0 50.0 77.0 36.0 45.0
# Clocks 130.0 120.0 80.0 31.0 110.0 65.0 75.0 94.0
# EndSection
# Sample Device for Hercules mono card:
# Section "Device"
# Identifier "Hercules mono"
# EndSection
# Device configured by xf86config:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Rage Xpert 98"
VendorName "ATI Technologies"
BoardName "ATI Rage Xpert 98"
#VideoRam 8192
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
# The Colour SVGA server
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
Device "Generic VGA"
#Device "ATI Rage Xpert 98"
Monitor "Sun 21 inch"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
#Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 320 200
#Virtual 1600 1280
EndSubsection
EndSection
# The 16-color VGA server
Section "Screen"
Driver "vga16"
Device "Generic VGA"
Monitor "Sun 21 inch"
Subsection "Display"
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 800 600
EndSubsection
EndSection
# The Mono server
Section "Screen"
Driver "vga2"
Device "Generic VGA"
Monitor "Sun 21 inch"
Subsection "Display"
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 800 600
EndSubsection
EndSection
# The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32,
Mach64)
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "ATI Rage Xpert 98"
Monitor "Sun 21 inch"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 1600 1280
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 1152 900
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubsection
EndSection
#
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 05:01, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> S. Roberts writes:
>=20
> > I ended up running XF86Config to get the display resolution set in
> >the end (thanks to all those that replied earlier). However, despite
> >this, I have to say that my colour settings have now been messed up.
> >
> >Where before I at least had clean crisp colours, now I have this grainy
> >finish to everything. I'll try to see what I can do with it for now, but
> >I'm not happy with what I'm getting out of this monitor.
> >
> >The graphics card's the ATI 8MB XPERT98 that worked brilliantly with my
> >15" monitor, but somehow this 21" monitor with supposedly higher
> >resolution capabilities just isn't happy here.
> >
> >For completeness sake's I'll include the relevant bits of the configs
> >created after running XF86Config. Hopefully someone'll point out some
> >silly oversight on my part.
>=20
> Make sure you're not running in 8bpp mode or such... try to add a
> "DefaultDepth 24" (or 32 if supported) to your "Screen" section.
> This will always give you a TrueColor display, instead of a PseudoColor
> (8 planes) one, in which certain applications may dither colors to
> make up for the small color space ("grainy finish").
>=20
> On a XFree4 XF86Config (in this part should be the same with XF3)
> this would look similar to the following:
>=20
> ...
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen 1"
> Device "radeon7500"
> Monitor "hansol"
> DefaultDepth 24
>=20
> Subsection "Display"
> ...
>=20
>=20
> --mkb
>=20
>=20
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science
Network Systems Engineer
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Hi,
Thanks for the advice.
I looked at those sections in /etc/XF86Config, but there isn't a field /
variable called "DefaultDepth" anywhere that I can set to our suggested
values.
I've included the graphics and display sections of the config file for
you guys. Please tell me what it is that I have to reset here. The
monitor was okay last night, but today, its starting to give me grief to
look at for long periods now.
This *can't* be this difficult, and I wish I knew the secret switches
and magic to get this to work as its supposed to. The monitor and
graphics cards aren't exactly exotic by any stretch. Someone please
help.
Stacey
File section:
# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of graphics device sections may be present
# Standard VGA Device:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic VGA"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Unknown"
Chipset "generic"
# VideoRam 256
# Clocks 25.2 28.3
EndSection
# Sample Device for accelerated server:
# Section "Device"
# Identifier "Actix GE32+ 2MB"
# VendorName "Actix"
# BoardName "GE32+"
# Ramdac "ATT20C490"
# Dacspeed 110
# Option "dac_8_bit"
# Clocks 25.0 28.0 40.0 0.0 50.0 77.0 36.0 45.0
# Clocks 130.0 120.0 80.0 31.0 110.0 65.0 75.0 94.0
# EndSection
# Sample Device for Hercules mono card:
# Section "Device"
# Identifier "Hercules mono"
# EndSection
# Device configured by xf86config:
Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Rage Xpert 98"
VendorName "ATI Technologies"
BoardName "ATI Rage Xpert 98"
#VideoRam 8192
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
# The Colour SVGA server
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
Device "Generic VGA"
#Device "ATI Rage Xpert 98"
Monitor "Sun 21 inch"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
#Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 320 200
#Virtual 1600 1280
EndSubsection
EndSection
# The 16-color VGA server
Section "Screen"
Driver "vga16"
Device "Generic VGA"
Monitor "Sun 21 inch"
Subsection "Display"
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 800 600
EndSubsection
EndSection
# The Mono server
Section "Screen"
Driver "vga2"
Device "Generic VGA"
Monitor "Sun 21 inch"
Subsection "Display"
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 800 600
EndSubsection
EndSection
# The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32,
Mach64)
Section "Screen"
Driver "accel"
Device "ATI Rage Xpert 98"
Monitor "Sun 21 inch"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 1600 1280
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 1280 1024
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 1152 900
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
Virtual 1024 768
EndSubsection
EndSection
#
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 05:01, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> S. Roberts writes:
>=20
> > I ended up running XF86Config to get the display resolution set in
> >the end (thanks to all those that replied earlier). However, despite
> >this, I have to say that my colour settings have now been messed up.
> >
> >Where before I at least had clean crisp colours, now I have this grainy
> >finish to everything. I'll try to see what I can do with it for now, but
> >I'm not happy with what I'm getting out of this monitor.
> >
> >The graphics card's the ATI 8MB XPERT98 that worked brilliantly with my
> >15" monitor, but somehow this 21" monitor with supposedly higher
> >resolution capabilities just isn't happy here.
> >
> >For completeness sake's I'll include the relevant bits of the configs
> >created after running XF86Config. Hopefully someone'll point out some
> >silly oversight on my part.
>=20
> Make sure you're not running in 8bpp mode or such... try to add a
> "DefaultDepth 24" (or 32 if supported) to your "Screen" section.
> This will always give you a TrueColor display, instead of a PseudoColor
> (8 planes) one, in which certain applications may dither colors to
> make up for the small color space ("grainy finish").
>=20
> On a XFree4 XF86Config (in this part should be the same with XF3)
> this would look similar to the following:
>=20
> ...
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen 1"
> Device "radeon7500"
> Monitor "hansol"
> DefaultDepth 24
>=20
> Subsection "Display"
> ...
>=20
>=20
> --mkb
>=20
>=20
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science
Network Systems Engineer
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