Re: what's happening with xorg?
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 04:22:58AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:47:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm in the middle of a portupgrade -aP, and saw that the newest mga driver is installed. So I did another X -configure, moved the file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and carefully tried out the new xf86-video-mga-1.9.100.. The screen is much brighter at the resolution is good, but the brightness is still very dingy compared to the vesa driver. There is nothing wrong with my CRT; on the other KVM connections (and/or) with the vesa driver at 800x600, the screen is completely bright. Is there some other ati driver yet to finish? The ati driver is for ATI chips like the Radeon. You could try playing with the gamma value of the monitor. When X is running you can use xgamma to adjust the gamma setting. You can also set this with the Gamma entry in the Monitor section of xorg.conf. Or should I ask somebbody to put back in the Radeon card? (i think that was the card i thought was going bad... ) Otherwise, I'll try the Gamma entry in my Monitor section with my G450. What value should I use? Or if it is boolen, do I try settting it to on?? thanks lots, gary PS: to you, or to any other driver wizards::: is this mga driver still being hacked-on? The screen is only dingy grey not black. (*mumble*) Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's happening with xorg?
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:46:27PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: You could try playing with the gamma value of the monitor. When X is running you can use xgamma to adjust the gamma setting. You can also set this with the Gamma entry in the Monitor section of xorg.conf. Or should I ask somebbody to put back in the Radeon card? (i think that was the card i thought was going bad... ) Otherwise, I'll try the Gamma entry in my Monitor section with my G450. What value should I use? Or if it is boolen, do I try settting it to on?? The default setting for gamma is 1. Try e.g. 2. See also xorg.conf(5). Alternatively you can try to change it while X is running by typing 'xgamma -gamma 2' in a terminal. This does require that the VidModeExtension is active, i.e. the ServerFlags option DisableVidModeExtension should _not_ be set. PS: to you, or to any other driver wizards::: is this mga driver still being hacked-on? The screen is only dingy grey not black. (*mumble*) It looks like it is still in development; http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-mga/ BTW, I was assuming you have tried adjusting the brightness and contrast settings of the monitor? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpcJZmwqdKYc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: what's happening with xorg?
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:18:53PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:46:27PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: You could try playing with the gamma value of the monitor. When X is running you can use xgamma to adjust the gamma setting. You can also set this with the Gamma entry in the Monitor section of xorg.conf. Or should I ask somebbody to put back in the Radeon card? (i think that was the card i thought was going bad... ) Otherwise, I'll try the Gamma entry in my Monitor section with my G450. What value should I use? Or if it is boolen, do I try settting it to on?? The default setting for gamma is 1. Try e.g. 2. See also xorg.conf(5). I'll try your xgamma -gamma 2 suggestion, below. Thanks for the data-point. I read [[ skimmed-thru ]] xorg.conf. This is another man page that you've got to prrint out, go into a corner, and read ... very slowly :-| Alternatively you can try to change it while X is running by typing 'xgamma -gamma 2' in a terminal. This does require that the VidModeExtension is active, i.e. the ServerFlags option DisableVidModeExtension should _not_ be set. Good to know. So far, none of the flags are set. PS: to you, or to any other driver wizards::: is this mga driver still being hacked-on? The screen is only dingy grey not black. (*mumble*) It looks like it is still in development; http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-mga/ BTW, I was assuming you have tried adjusting the brightness and contrast settings of the monitor? Ja. In fact, only when everything is maxed out (brightness contrast) does the screen approach dingy grey. Otherwise, it's something like light mud ... and I'm not trying to be funny. At least the hackers are still developing this driver. I booted my DOS partition and it recognized problems and finally displayed a 1024x768 display. have a good one, gary Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's happening with xorg?
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:36:09AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: The default setting for gamma is 1. Try e.g. 2. See also xorg.conf(5). I'll try your xgamma -gamma 2 suggestion, below. Thanks for the data-point. I read [[ skimmed-thru ]] xorg.conf. This is another man page that you've got to prrint out, go into a corner, and read ... very slowly :-| The good news is that the autodetection of Xorg has improved a lot. In a lot of cases you can run 7.3 without xorg.conf. Ja. In fact, only when everything is maxed out (brightness contrast) does the screen approach dingy grey. Otherwise, it's something like light mud ... and I'm not trying to be funny. You should make sure that this is not a hardware problem. Try using another monitor or another VGA cable. If you can get your hands on another graphics card (maybe built-in graphics on the mobo?) try that as well. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpq1u2GDs7di.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: what's happening with xorg?
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:47:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I'm in the middle of a portupgrade -aP, and saw that the newest mga driver is installed. So I did another X -configure, moved the file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and carefully tried out the new xf86-video-mga-1.9.100.. The screen is much brighter at the resolution is good, but the brightness is still very dingy compared to the vesa driver. There is nothing wrong with my CRT; on the other KVM connections (and/or) with the vesa driver at 800x600, the screen is completely bright. Is there some other ati driver yet to finish? The ati driver is for ATI chips like the Radeon. You could try playing with the gamma value of the monitor. When X is running you can use xgamma to adjust the gamma setting. You can also set this with the Gamma entry in the Monitor section of xorg.conf. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpLwGXJn2dGM.pgp Description: PGP signature
