From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 30 18:33:05 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C067A16A403 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:33:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from victor.engmark@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0D713C4B0 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:33:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from victor.engmark@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so1547123wra for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:33:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=DcQaLhgeqG/nozuJndsezZFhX9G/97N9CrAGt64FyKcRwzbgcbwNjS5IkeyCAa2A0fxoD8YwVDeY8WpczWp1HJUAJU/FmmQzCHRsUOlh5mrMH7RJyWOJDZGTH/KNoD0LlBT7mFvnRfgJQxFOyBVfeILfXDmcCL3QYnP/HqUUSPw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=IUBg42TZLMjIZyq2MWB0tkJHx1JMONCmcNmQKg5hWraUFa5BTyNTWC+7zrb8IRxz9nRuH+9xGwKhaLW1DPiUN1CGIqT5Sb9YYK1RvBgGDr9R92EUH4bl6Ap6GGT0u4+svJBgQVjQQ6snXLKgfy5VQHINBs6KHpHuKT1DE8Juu78= Received: by 10.114.46.1 with SMTP id t1mr722111wat.1177957983708; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.79.14 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:33:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7d4f41f50704301133p16da9eenff8ffac8c90493ca@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:33:03 +0200 From: "Victor Engmark" To: J65nko In-Reply-To: <19861fba0704301119k213f36b4ifb9836c722396e72@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <7d4f41f50704300202y366d468cu61a81b27786130c8@mail.gmail.com> <19861fba0704301119k213f36b4ifb9836c722396e72@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates? 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: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:33:05 -0000 On 4/30/07, J65nko wrote: > > On 4/30/07, Victor Engmark wrote: > > I'm trying to create a pristine xorg.conf, but I've been unable to > > find proper values for HorizSync and VertRefresh for my Dell Latitude > > D610. > > > > I've tried the values presented in MonitorsDB > > < > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/src/hwdata/MonitorsDB?view=markup > > > > for "Dell 1400x1050 Laptop Display Panel", which are HorizSync > > 31.5-90.0 and VertRefresh 59.0-75.0, but I get a warning in > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log for both of them saying they are "not within DDC > > ranges." > [snip] > > > (WW) I810(0): config file hsync range 60-66.3158kHz not within DDC hsync > ranges. > > [snip] > > > > It seems that a DDC (or, apparently, DDS) query should be able to > > determine these numbers, but > > [snip] > > I don't understand why people still configure X the old ancient way. > > Follow the FBSD handbook to do a 'Xorg -configure' and a test run of > X with the generated Xorg.conf file. I did. Then have a look at your your '/var/log/Xorg.0.log'. You will find a > log of X using DDC to interrogate your LCD screen for it's > capabilities and the acceptable modelines Nope. Already tried that, and the capabilities were /not/ listed in the log, the way it was described in several tutorials. This is starting to look like one of the most common problems in F/OSS: Theory != Practice. In theory, any one of the methods already tried and suggested here should work. In practice, the "documentation" (MonitorsDB) is wrong (at least according to x.org), and none of the quoted methods work the way they should. An interesting result is that there are several fundamentally different tutorials for several closely related *nixes, all of which work only on a small subset of installations. -- Victor Engmark Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds profound