Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 17:57:31 +1000 From: Malcolm Fitzgerald <mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Video mode not supported for LCD monitor Message-ID: <79c1b5fa746e47904c3f4a783d1efb88@pacific.net.au> In-Reply-To: <11993f238957c4571ec9749a674087b6@pacific.net.au> References: <b0f657a6b3d4a27cd6b376c60da5c592@pacific.net.au> <20060521204600.7ec583a8@atomizer.opensourcebeef.net> <11993f238957c4571ec9749a674087b6@pacific.net.au>
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On 22/05/2006, at 12:42 PM, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: > > On 22/05/2006, at 10:46 AM, rod person wrote: > >> On Mon, 22 May 2006 10:36:17 +1000 >> Malcolm Fitzgerald <mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au> wrote: >> >>> I've just replaced my trusty CRT screen with a spunky LCD screen. >>> After the machine boots I don't see the login window. Instead I see a >>> bouncing box that says "Video Mode not Supported". How do I rectify >>> this? >>> >> >> You have to correct your vertical refresh in your xorg.conf. >> I had to add the line: >> VertRefresh 75 >> >> to the monitor section when I went from CRT to LCD. > > That didn't work for me. > > When I use -configure to generate a conf file the Monitor specs seem > to fit my monitor but the monitor won't use it. > > Looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log I can see that it tries all the modes > and says this for each of them: > > (II) NV(0): Mode "1024x768" is larger than BIOS programmed panel size > of 1 x 1. Removing. > (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (unknown reason) > (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "512X384" (bad mode > clock/interlace/doublescan) > > .... > > (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found > > > Funnily enough, when I passed Xorg -config a non-existent config file > name (by accident) it displayed the black and grey grid with the X in > the middle. Editing /etc/ttys so that the system booted to console instead of starting X, then removing the xorg.conf, then running Xorg -configure generated a conf file that worked. It looks the same as the the first one that was generated but the system likes this one better. thanks
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