From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 12 14:26:10 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 964B216A407 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:26:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trashbird1240@yahoo.com) Received: from web50412.mail.yahoo.com (web50412.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.155]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B43143D91 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:25:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trashbird1240@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 75020 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Sep 2006 14:25:54 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=BNBs9VkWIkimnKIVVBAArwCXL3MwOsMcxX0HQp2RrmFQDDEWq9cfkiHxJzshH/cx3NAqk/VjQuW7TS58uF8S9qWgPBOytRL5sH7kldVfVSG9jPDZ8hu7tkD1PSwI9dm+IDsbyn1YEzGyIeIWFwREO10fV8hMMtGsZAgl9PbbMYs= ; Message-ID: <20060912142554.75018.qmail@web50412.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [132.183.29.121] by web50412.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:25:54 PDT Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:25:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Adamson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:45:57 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Flatscreen Monitor Specifications 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, 12 Sep 2006 14:26:10 -0000 Howdy Y'all, I am planning to install FreeBSD this weekend and I am doing a hardware inventory. I have a fairly new computer (bought brand new a year ago: Dell something-or-other 5100C), with a flatscreen monitor and USB everything. I looked for my monitor specifications last night and have found nothing resembling the 35Hz, 800x600 stuff that is discussed in the handbook. this would make sense, of course,... All I've found in Windows Device Manager is something like "Intel 42985G Chipset". Whenever I've tried liveCDs (FreesBie, various linuces), they have all picked out the monitor just fine (and most everything else). I just want to cover my bases, in case I end up with a flickering screen, I want to be able to do something about it. Do you have any suggestions for where I should look for any monitor specifications? What do I enter when I do my X configuration? Thanks, Joel Joel J. Adamson Arlington, MA --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail.