Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 10:24:26 +0200 From: "Victor Engmark" <victor.engmark@gmail.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates? Message-ID: <7d4f41f50705030124k34c9fb7dxca13c8ae2682e8a5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070502231918.GJ47158@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <7d4f41f50704300202y366d468cu61a81b27786130c8@mail.gmail.com> <20070501005104.GA44188@wantadilla.lemis.com> <7d4f41f50705010028o319c543aj4c57f4e2edb9cf8d@mail.gmail.com> <20070502231918.GJ47158@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On 5/3/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On Tuesday, 1 May 2007 at 9:28:27 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote: > > On 5/1/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On Monday, 30 April 2007 at 11:02:54 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote: > >> 1: Try XFree86. Maybe that will work better. > > > > I'm a bit reluctant to straying away from the recommended setup on my > work > > machine. > > Even if the recommended setup doesn't work? Note that we have both in > the ports collection, so the definition of "recommended" sounds more > like "default" to me. It "works" in the sense that I get the correct dimensions, but I'm unsure as to whether I risk frying the card or screen by using the current values, and whether I can somehow establish which values would be optimal for my card and screen. > Besides, isn't the code base for this and X.org still very similar? > > Yes, but there have been many edge cases where one works and the other > doesn't. In general, X.org brings better results, but it's worth a > try. Alright, thanks. I'll see about it. Get hold of the latest Knoppix CD from http://www.knoppix.org/, burn > it to CD, boot from it and see if that works. Knoppix is a Linux > distribution that runs from CD, so it's good for this kind of test. I still don't understand how it will provide the values I'm looking for. I note that none of the other messages that have gone by in this > thread have addressed what I consider to be the crucial point: you > have a BIOS mapping issue. It would be interesting to know what > version of FreeBSD you're running. > 6.2-RELEASE. -- Victor Engmark Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds profound
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