Re: Need help with Gnome and Video card

2006-11-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

On 11/15/06, Ne'Bahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

my conf looks like:

HorizSync31.5, 35.15, 35.5
VertRefresh50-70
Section Device
IdentifierStandard VGA
VendorNameUnknown
BoardName  Unknown

Drivervga
Section Screen
...
DefaultDepth24
Subsection Display
Depth16
Modes800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
ViewPort0 0
...

So I have the same trouble, very low resolution (BIG characters), and about
4 colors depth (black, white, pink, cyan or some kind similar), like the old
ones EGA...


Your HorizSync  VertRefresh lines are _extremely_
conservative, add another Monitor section, populated
as you wish with funny names:

Section Monitor
   Identifier   LlamaLlanoLlautu
   VendorName   Nancy Pelosi
   ModelNameTim Curry
   HorizSync 31-92  # Note:  Do Not Use These
   VertRefresh 55-160 # Numbers, Look It Up For
   # Your Monitor.  You can do
   # real damage with bad numbers.
   # (It is actually an NEC E750)
EndSection
. . .
Section Screen
   Identifier Screen0
   Device Card0
   MonitorLlamaLlanoLlautu
. . .

I would think that the limit on the number of possible
Monitor definitions would be quite large, you might
want to leave the default vga stuff in there, just in case
you happen to need it at some point, just change the
Screen section to reflect what you are using.

http://www.monitorworld.com/monitors_home.html

has been quite useful to me in the past looking up refresh
rates on equipment for which I did not have the documentation.

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Need help with Gnome and Video card

2006-11-15 Thread Ne'Bahn 

my conf looks like:

HorizSync31.5, 35.15, 35.5
VertRefresh50-70
Section Device
   IdentifierStandard VGA
   VendorNameUnknown
   BoardName  Unknown

Drivervga
Section Screen
   ...
   DefaultDepth24
   Subsection Display
   Depth16
   Modes800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
   ViewPort0 0
   ...

So I have the same trouble, very low resolution (BIG characters), and about
4 colors depth (black, white, pink, cyan or some kind similar), like the old
ones EGA...

- Original Message - 
From: Christian Walther

To: Ne'Bahn
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Need help...



Hi Ne'Bahn,

it is possible that there is something wrong with your hardware
configuration, but I guess that your X configuration contains the
wrong sort order of display resolutions.
If you look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf you'll find a Section
screen somewhere. This is were the resolutions are configured your
laptop (and desktop) is capable to display.

Important for your situation are the Subsection Display lines, which
look like this:

   SubSection Display
   Depth   16
   Modes   1280x1024 800x600 640x480
   EndSubSection

Now, in your case I guess that the line listing all the modes starts
with the lowest resolution possible. Just change the order, so that
the highest resolution is at the beginning, and you should be fine.

Restart X after you edited the file, and you should have a resolution
that suites your needs. You might want to look at the parameter
DefaultDepth, too. If it is set to 8 (8 bit = 256 colors) you might
want to set it to an higher Depth value. 


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