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Date:      Wed, 27 May 2009 06:25:39 -0400
From:      Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com>
To:        perryh@pluto.rain.com
Cc:        freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: re-probing DDC/EDID
Message-ID:  <20090527062539.081a21ab@voicenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <4a1d0812.wF4v52gYoURjHyHb%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Wed, 27 May 2009 02:29:54 -0700
perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:

> Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> wrote:
> 
> > 'xrandr -q' should definitey query your monitors and dump the new
> > information to /var/log/Xorg.0.log if you are using a driver that
> > supports xrandr 1.2.
> 
> That may be the problem:
> 
>   $ xrandr --version
>   Server reports RandR version 1.1
> 
> > If your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file shows that you are using the
> > radeon driver (do you have hundreds of lines starting with
> > "(II) RADEON"?)
> 
> I have one such line:
> 
>   (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
> 
> followed by about a hundred more listing additional ATI chipsets
> (but no more with the "(II) RADEON" prefix).
> 
> ...
> 
> > What version of Xorg do you have installed?
> 
>   $ Xorg -version
> 
>   X Window System Version 6.9.0
>   Release Date: 21 December 2005
>   X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9
>   Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.1 i386 [ELF] 
>   Current Operating System: FreeBSD fbsd61 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #30: Mon Jan  1 23:01:34 PST 2007     perryh@fbsd61:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
>   Build Date: 24 March 2006
>           Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
>           to make sure that you have the latest version.
>   Module Loader present
> 

You are using a very old version of Xorg there.  I'm not sure how to do
what you want without xrandr 1.2 (perhaps someone else does), and to get
xrandr 1.2 you will definitely need to upgrade.

Adam



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