Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:00:43 -0500 From: Gary Robinson <grobinson@goombah.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Gnome display configuration problem Message-ID: <20061122140043.601684.8f5b0c7a@goombah.com>
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Hi,
Yesterday I installed freebsd 6.1 on an old Dell PowerEdge 1300. It's
working fine with one exception. I installed gnome from freebsd ports,
and it's giving me a 640x480, 80 Hz screen resolution. The Screen
Resolution Preferences panel gives that combination as the only option.
But my monitor has better capabilities.
I have edited my xorg.conf.new so that it contains info describing my
display, a Nanoa T2-17TS:
Section "Monitor"
DisplaySize 1250 938 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Nanoa"
ModelName "T2-17TS"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 30-86
VertRefresh 55-160
EndSection
Other relevant information was automatically filled in be "Xorg -config
xorg.conf.new":
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "accel" # [<bool>]
#Option "crt_display" # [<bool>]
#Option "composite_sync" # [<bool>]
#Option "hw_cursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "linear" # [<bool>]
#Option "tv_out" # [<bool>]
#Option "tv_standard" # <str>
#Option "mmio_cache" # [<bool>]
#Option "test_mmio_cache" # [<bool>]
#Option "panel_display" # [<bool>]
#Option "probe_clocks" # [<bool>]
#Option "reference_clock" # <freq>
#Option "shadow_fb" # [<bool>]
#Option "sw_cursor" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "ati"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "3D Rage IIC AGP"
ChipSet "ati"
ChipId 0x4757
ChipRev 0x7a
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Does anyone have any thoughts about what I can do so that Gnome gives
me more options?
Any help would be appreciated.
--
Gary Robinson
CTO
Emergent Music, LLC
grobinson@goombah.com
207-942-3463
Company: http://www.goombah.com
Blog: http://www.garyrobinson.net
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