Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:20:17 -0500 From: Erik Osterholm <erik-freebsd@erikosterholm.org> To: Victor Engmark <victor.engmark@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates? Message-ID: <20070430202017.GA69501@idoru.cepheid.org> In-Reply-To: <7d4f41f50704301133p16da9eenff8ffac8c90493ca@mail.gmail.com> References: <7d4f41f50704300202y366d468cu61a81b27786130c8@mail.gmail.com> <19861fba0704301119k213f36b4ifb9836c722396e72@mail.gmail.com> <7d4f41f50704301133p16da9eenff8ffac8c90493ca@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:33:03PM +0200, Victor Engmark wrote: > On 4/30/07, J65nko <j65nko@gmail.com> wrote: > >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. > > <rant>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.</rant> Could you post your Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf? When Theory != Practice, it's often helpful to have information like this to help determine what went wrong, so that in the future, Theory can == Practice.
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