From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 1 00:51:06 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 7379116A40A for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 00:51:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B06413C45A for ; Tue, 1 May 2007 00:51:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A49AADDF3F; Tue, 1 May 2007 10:51:04 +1000 (EST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 792C81A986F; Tue, 1 May 2007 10:21:04 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 10:21:04 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Victor Engmark Message-ID: <20070501005104.GA44188@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <7d4f41f50704300202y366d468cu61a81b27786130c8@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7d4f41f50704300202y366d468cu61a81b27786130c8@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 00:51:06 -0000 --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 30 April 2007 at 11:02:54 +0200, 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. This, along with the follow-ups, reminds me of a problem I had with a Dell Inspiron 5100 some years ago. In that case, X didn't map the video BIOS correctly, and so it wasn't able to read the information from the BIOS. The information includes things like the panel geometry, which in my case was being reported as 65535x65535 pixels. In your case we have: > # From Xorg.0.log > DisplaySize 286 214 That's clearly wrong too. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jul2003.html#25 for more details. It's worth mentioning that the problem was fixed in a later version of the system, and I can now install X on it with no problems. If this looks familiar, a couple of suggestions: 1: Try XFree86. Maybe that will work better. 2: Get hold of the latest Knoppix CD and see if that works. If it does, it might help fix the problem under FreeBSD. 3: Use the method I described in my diary to build a server with a static version of the video BIOS. The real answer, of course, is to understand why the mapping doesn't work (if, indeed, that's the problem). But this could be a start. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGNo74IubykFB6QiMRAjeaAJ0X/mYKOdVoOfbwHntkV+5uJzRttwCfbFNc vbOHx9r5TsG/lHa7NoxStDc= =JTNz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx--