Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:22:58 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: what's happening with xorg? Message-ID: <20071017022258.GA2554@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20071016224722.GA72045@thought.org> References: <20071016224722.GA72045@thought.org>
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--8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:47:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > I'm in the middle of a portupgrade -aP, and saw that the newest > mga driver is installed. > So I did another X -configure, moved the file to > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and carefully tried out the new > xf86-video-mga-1.9.100.. The screen is much brighter at the > resolution is good, but the brightness is still very dingy > compared to the "vesa" driver. There is nothing wrong with my > CRT; on the other KVM connections (and/or) with the vesa driver=20 > at 800x600, the screen is completely bright. Is there some other > "ati" driver yet to finish? =20 The ati driver is for ATI chips like the Radeon. You could try playing with the gamma value of the monitor. When X is running you can use xgamma to adjust the gamma setting. You can also set this with the Gamma entry in the Monitor section of xorg.conf. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHFXICEnfvsMMhpyURAp4DAJ9KACWsGexuFT864O97yBLhJrUg1gCgsLeL ND1nbvBtdcBg3goUvds309I= =ju8A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+--
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