From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 20: 7:22 2002 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 215A937B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 20:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A919843E4A for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 20:07:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 65C378147D; Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:37:15 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:37:15 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Jason Barnes Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Warren Block , "Balaji, Pavan" Subject: Re: XFree86 4.2 screen resolutions Message-ID: <20020713030715.GB61459@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20020712120045.Y49537-100000@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu> <20020712110818.I49110-100000@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020712120045.Y49537-100000@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu> <20020712110818.I49110-100000@c3po.lpl.arizona.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 12 July 2002 at 11:11:43 -0700, Jason Barnes wrote: > > Hi! I am running FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE and am just biting the > bullet to upgrade to XFree86 4.2 for purposes of KDE3. Everything is > working -- except that I can't seem to get the screen to go into any mode > but 640x480 (any color depth). I want to get to 1024x768 (24bit), and I > know this should be possible because it was running that way under XFree86 > 3.3. I would greatly apreciate any insight you might have into this > matter. Here is my XF86Config: > > On Friday, 12 July 2002 at 12:01:52 -0700, Jason Barnes wrote: > > Aha! The problem was my lack of monitor refresh rates, I guess > the autoconfigure failed to detect them. When I added the lines: > > HorizSync 30.0 - 96.0 > VertRefresh 50.0 - 160.0 > > to the "Monitor" section all was well. Thank you all for your help! The way to debug this kind of problem is to read the (copious) output produced when starting the X server. It will tell you which resolutions it rejects, and why. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message