On Friday, 12 July 2002 at 11:11:43 -0700, Jason Barnes wrote:
>
>       Hi!  I am running FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE and am just biting the
> bullet to upgrade to XFree86 4.2 for purposes of KDE3.  Everything is
> working -- except that I can't seem to get the screen to go into any mode
> but 640x480 (any color depth).  I want to get to 1024x768 (24bit), and I
> know this should be possible because it was running that way under XFree86
> 3.3.  I would greatly apreciate any insight you might have into this
> matter.  Here is my XF86Config:
>
> <snip>

On Friday, 12 July 2002 at 12:01:52 -0700, Jason Barnes wrote:
>
>       Aha!  The problem was my lack of monitor refresh rates, I guess
> the autoconfigure failed to detect them.  When I added the lines:
>
>         HorizSync    30.0 - 96.0
>         VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
>
> to the "Monitor" section all was well.  Thank you all for your help!

The way to debug this kind of problem is to read the (copious) output
produced when starting the X server.  It will tell you which
resolutions it rejects, and why.

Greg
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