> so, if any of you have X11 running, and could do this:
> xrandr --verbose
>From an HP laptop running FreeBSD:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 800, maximum 1280 x 1280
VGA disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Identifier: 0x41
Timestamp: 81746
Subpixel: unknown
Clones:
CRTCs: 0 1
Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
filter:
LVDS connected 1280x800+0+0 (0x44) normal (normal left inverted right x axis y
axis) 304mm x 190mm
Identifier: 0x42
Timestamp: 81746
Subpixel: horizontal rgb
Gamma: 1.0:1.0:1.0
Brightness: 1.0
Clones:
CRTC: 1
CRTCs: 1
Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
filter:
EDID:
00ffffffffffff00320c320100000000
00120103801e13780ab3859558538a28
25505400000001010101010101010101
010101010101121b007d502016303020
360030be100000180000000000000000
00000000000000000000000000fe004c
475068696c6970734c43440a000000fe
004c503134315758332d544c4e3200a7
PANEL_FITTING: full_aspect
supported: center full_aspect full
BACKLIGHT_CONTROL: combination
supported: native legacy combination kernel
BACKLIGHT: 0 (0x00000000) range: (0,0)
1280x800 (0x44) 69.3MHz -HSync -VSync *current +preferred
h: width 1280 start 1328 end 1360 total 1405 skew 0 clock 49.3KHz
v: height 800 start 803 end 809 total 822 clock 60.0Hz
1024x768 (0x45) 65.0MHz -HSync -VSync
h: width 1024 start 1048 end 1184 total 1344 skew 0 clock 48.4KHz
v: height 768 start 771 end 777 total 806 clock 60.0Hz
800x600 (0x46) 40.0MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 800 start 840 end 968 total 1056 skew 0 clock 37.9KHz
v: height 600 start 601 end 605 total 628 clock 60.3Hz
640x480 (0x47) 25.2MHz -HSync -VSync
h: width 640 start 656 end 752 total 800 skew 0 clock 31.5KHz
v: height 480 start 490 end 492 total 525 clock 59.9Hz
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Identifier: 0x43
Timestamp: 81746
Subpixel: unknown
Clones:
CRTCs: 0 1
Transform: 1.000000 0.000000 0.000000
0.000000 1.000000 0.000000
0.000000 0.000000 1.000000
filter:
BROADCAST_RGB: 0 (0x00000000) range: (0,1)