From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 30 16:37:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8736516A408 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:37:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd001@freeode.co.uk) Received: from mail.freeode.co.uk (mail.freeode.co.uk [87.127.24.125]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1705B13C46E for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:37:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd001@freeode.co.uk) Received: from lexx.freeode.co.uk (lexx.freeode.co.uk [10.10.10.2]) by mail.freeode.co.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l3UGbD1s004340; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:37:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd001@freeode.co.uk) From: John Murphy To: "Victor Engmark" Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:37:13 +0100 Message-ID: References: <7d4f41f50704300202y366d468cu61a81b27786130c8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7d4f41f50704300202y366d468cu61a81b27786130c8@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd001@freeode.co.uk List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:37:15 -0000 Victor Engmark wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm trying to create a pristine xorg.conf, but I've been unable to >find proper values for HorizSync and VertRefresh for my Dell Latitude >D610. > >I've tried the values presented in MonitorsDB > >for "Dell 1400x1050 Laptop Display Panel", which are HorizSync >31.5-90.0 and VertRefresh 59.0-75.0, but I get a warning in >/var/log/Xorg.0.log for both of them saying they are "not within DDC >ranges." > >I've tried looking around the Dell web pages, but I haven't found any >pages mentioning these parameters (not too surprising, really). > >I've tried to leave these settings out, but even then I get a warning: >(WW) I810(0): config file hsync range 60-66.3158kHz not within DDC hsync ranges. > >I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the other warnings I get >during startup: >(WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum >and >(WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f05 failed. > >It seems that a DDC (or, apparently, DDS) query should be able to >determine these numbers, but >cd /usr/ports && make search name=ddc && make search name=dds >doesn't give any tools to deal with this. > >The relevant part of /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > >Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Dell Latitude D610 monitor" > VendorName "SEC" > ModelName "3450" > # From Xorg.0.log > DisplaySize 286 214 > Option "DPMS" >EndSection Hi Victor, Not sure if this will help, but there's some good information from a Linux Dell D610 user who seems to have a good xorg.conf which should be roughly the same for FreeBSD: http://www.kcore.org/?menumain=4&menusub=2 He mentions a video BIOS patch called '915resolution'. There's a FreeBSD version at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/915resolution/pkg-descr More information on "the hack" here: http://www.geocities.com/stomljen/ -- HTH. John.