Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:33:32 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg 6.8.1 Message-ID: <200502281433.33152.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050228022547.GA49848@thought.org> References: <20050226110651.0a20301b.gstewart@bonivet.net> <200502271136.44681.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050228022547.GA49848@thought.org>
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--nextPart2009294.psbxhnxSMo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:55, Gary Kline wrote: > > FYI X.Org should have just used your XF86-4 config file by default. > > XF86Config bombed instantly, even with startx. > This afternoon after hours of testing one-change-at-a-time > I found that the DefaultDepth of 8 is at least one thing that > bombs. 24 works, but the max size with "X -pconfigure"s > xorg.conf only 1152x863(?). A DefaultDepth of 16 gives me > 1880x1024, which is what works best for here. Did you read the log file? This will more than likely give you a good clue as to what it's barfing on.. > I'm still having troubl getting the Horz and Vert sync numbers > right. This is probably why the GUI apps "quiver" whenever I > try anything. My CRT is trying to tell me something when going > blank by printing error message about "INVALID SYNC" and so > on. _So_ is there any tool that will auto-configure the > horizontal/vertical ranges? I didn't see xvidtune in the > X11R6 bin directory, but don't think it had this capability. > (FWIW, my tube is a Hitachi SuperScan Eltire751.) Your monitor is supposed to tell the X server what it's capable of, but som= e=20 are dumb and don't seem to do it properly. You can hard code it if you find out the monitors specs (eg manual, web sit= e). =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2009294.psbxhnxSMo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCIpgV5ZPcIHs/zowRAl2+AJsE0NpPeSP/CsRip2qlWdrM3wCdwgCgkhe0 q9X6n07762EDY0soWKbpx70= =Gptt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2009294.psbxhnxSMo--
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