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Maybe some body can explain this alittle better then my google searchs 
and other readings.

My question is this: Lets say your installing BSD on some workstation, 
you dont know the hardware specs of the monitor (Vertical and Horizontal 
rates ect..) and you need to configure Xorg. Its my understanding that 
Xorg runs getconfig, which determines the video card type and monitor 
type. Once it has that information it applys the information gatherd to 
the xorg config. Is that how it works? I was going to say, it cant just 
test a bunch of differnt monitor rates that could cause damage to the 
monitor.

However today in one of our labs I installed bsd on a machine and was 
unable to get xorg working properly becuase getconfig wasnt issueing the 
correct H and V rates for the monitor, I didnt know what to do without 
having to look it up. Anyway if someone could explain this process I 
would be much obliged. Thanks