From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 11 09:22:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF8B16A4CE for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:22:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from catseye.mine.nu (d207-81-17-215.bchsia.telus.net [207.81.17.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7F8743D69 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:22:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from catseye@catseye.mine.nu) Received: (qmail 75734 invoked by uid 1001); 11 Jan 2004 17:27:08 -0000 Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:27:08 -0800 From: Chris Pressey To: lance@dallypost.com Message-Id: <20040111092708.4f495070.cpressey@catseye.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <13982.66.82.160.1.1073838999.squirrel@www.dallypost.com> References: <4554.66.82.160.1.1073789393.squirrel@www.dallypost.com> <200401101949.59899.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> <1024.66.82.166.202.1073794678.squirrel@www.dallypost.com> <200401102255.23969.ecrist@adtechintegrated.com> <13982.66.82.160.1.1073838999.squirrel@www.dallypost.com> Organization: Cat's Eye Technologies X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8a (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.9) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:22:58 -0000 On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:36:39 -0700 (MST) "Lance Earl" wrote: > The Monitor section of XF86Config includes > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Monitor Vendor" > Model Name "Monitor Model" > HorizSync 31.0 -70.0 > VertRefresh 55.0 - 120.0 If your aim is simply to get a stable display (at the expense of video quality,) you could try more conservative values for these. I have the following in my XF86Config: HorizSync 31.5 - 35.1 VertRefresh 50.0 - 70.0 This lets me get 16-bit colour at 800x600 resolution, which is all I need. If you want higher resolutions, you can start from there and gradually increase the values until you get a range which is large enough to support more colours and/or pixels, but not so large that it lets your display go all woobly. > My Monitor is a NEC FE700+ so these settings seem to be correct. I see > taht the refresh rates are not in quotes like the other items, is this > correct? Correct, they do not need quotes. > I forgot to mention that during install, after running the xconfig > setup and saving the files, it said that the setup appeared to have > failed and gave me a chance to try again. I tried several times but > with the same result. I get this all the time too. I think it might be a bug in the install process, actually... -Chris