On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 07:25 -0700, Joel Adamson wrote:
Howdy Y'all,
I am planning to install FreeBSD this weekend and I am doing a hardware
inventory. I have a fairly new computer (bought brand new a year ago: Dell
something-or-other 5100C), with a flatscreen monitor and USB everything. I
looked for my monitor specifications last night and have found nothing
resembling the 35Hz, 800x600 stuff that is discussed in the handbook. this
would make sense, of course,...
All I've found in Windows Device Manager is something like Intel 42985G
Chipset.
Whenever I've tried liveCDs (FreesBie, various linuces), they have all picked
out the monitor just fine (and most everything else). I just want to cover
my bases, in case I end up with a flickering screen, I want to be able to do
something about it.
Do you have any suggestions for where I should look for any monitor
specifications? What do I enter when I do my X configuration?
Thanks,
Joel
Joel J. Adamson
Arlington, MA
Assuming you have a dell monitor, have you tried looking it up on
http://support.dell.com ? Most likely, you could even google it. My
DELL 1901FP, came up when I googled it. Just worry about the horizontal
and vertical synch/refresh rates for now, if they're wrong you can fry
it.
This is mine:
Section Monitor
Identifier DELL 1901FP
HorizSync 30-80
VertRefresh 56-76
ModeLine 1024x768i 45 1024 1048 1208 1264 768 776 784 817 Interlace
EndSection
That's the minimum for monitor, I believe, mine works great anyway.
This is my Screen section for that monitor:
Section Screen
Identifier Screen 1
Device i810
Monitor DELL 1901FP
DefaultDepth24
SubSection Display
Depth 8
Modes 1280x1024
Option rgb bits 8
Visual StaticColor
EndSubSection
SubSection Display
Depth 16
Modes 1280x1024
EndSubSection
SubSection Display
Depth 24
Modes 1280x1024
EndSubSection
EndSection
Bob
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