Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:46:27 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: what's happening with xorg? Message-ID: <20071017064627.GA51648@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20071017022258.GA2554@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <20071016224722.GA72045@thought.org> <20071017022258.GA2554@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 04:22:58AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > 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 > > at 800x600, the screen is completely bright. Is there some other > > "ati" driver yet to finish? > > 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. Or should I ask somebbody to put back in the Radeon card? (i think that was the card i thought was "going bad"... ) Otherwise, I'll try the "Gamma" entry in my Monitor section with my G450. What value should I use? Or if it is boolen, do I try settting it to "on"?? thanks lots, gary PS: to you, or to any other driver wizards::: is this mga driver still being hacked-on? The screen is only "dingy grey" not black. (*mumble*) > > Roland > -- > 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) -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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