From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 19 21:41:31 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19BE5106564A for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:41:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dieterbsd@engineer.com) Received: from mailout-us.gmx.com (mailout-us.gmx.com [74.208.5.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B58688FC0C for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:41:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 23871 invoked by uid 0); 19 Jul 2011 21:41:29 -0000 Received: from 67.206.183.1 by rms-us016 with HTTP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:41:27 +0000 From: "Dieter BSD" Message-ID: <20110719214128.111610@gmx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Authenticated: #74169980 X-Flags: 0001 X-Mailer: GMX.com Web Mailer x-registered: 0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-GMX-UID: ZpdHGt4Ly2LxMxnMWTA2pAsiLyUmZUhK Subject: Re: trying for 1920x1080 was: Re: Attempting to get an X11 server running 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, 19 Jul 2011 21:41:31 -0000 Reducing the color depth to 16 allows the wimpy Rage XL (8 MiB) to do 1920x1080. So then I moved the old slow X terminal out of the way and moved the shiny new Dell ST2220T LCD into the prime spot in front of the keyboard drawer... ...and the cable doesn't reach. Two HD-15 to BNC cables back-to-back fixed that, but now it doesn't do the DCC/EDID stuff, so I had to get it to use a modeline to get 1920x1080. And of course it doesn't go into standby mode.  sigh Still have some minor issues like finding a decent font for xterm, and putting a window at +0+0 hides a few pixels off-screen, and FreeBSD can't tell the difference between a Unix keyboard and a pee-cee keyboard, but it is usable. Thanks for the help!