Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 08:32:21 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: re-probing DDC/EDID Message-ID: <1243431141.2926.2230.camel@balrog.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <4a1d0841.aRu1EXJEUJCmcy7w%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <4a164879.9A1SKOjgHUb7X9q6%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <1243015185.63754.104.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4a1724c4.OuQCIyZ462E1cHYx%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <1243089327.63754.1345.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4a1a288f.Z0ZX9ngtqKNukKbL%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <1243259500.1787.986.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4a1b09b3.ewnqp2rizVfsYpk5%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <1243293431.1704.387.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4a1baf8e.Lz5OEp/BR3fkQ%2BQO%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <1243363479.2926.1082.camel@balrog.2hip.net> <4a1d0841.aRu1EXJEUJCmcy7w%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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--=-lZV26o/F2cPdUlLpII5d Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 02:30 -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >=20 > > > * Running "xrandr -q". I previously provided the output from having > > > done so, noting that it appeared to be reporting the monitor info > > > pertaining to the older monitor -- thus presumably cached at > > > startup -- rather than anything which might have been produced > > > by rerunning the probe after I had switched to the new monitor. > > > There are at least three resolutions provided by the new monitor > > > which are not in the "xrandr -q" report, and two of them (720x400 > > > and 640x350) are smaller than the old maximum of 1280x1024 and thus > > > presumably should not have been suppressed based on being too large > > > to be usable by the currently-running server. Furthermore, the > > > 342mm x 271mm screen dimensions reported by "xrandr -q" are those > > > of the old monitor; the new one is about 517mm x 324mm. > > > > Watch xorg.log while running xrandr -q. If you have a virtual set > > large enough to display the new larger mode then it will show up... >=20 > A "tail -f" on /var/log/Xorg.0.log showed nothing while running > "xrandr -q" in a different xterm. Hrm, it does with the nouveau driver that I'm running right now... I'll have to pop in a radeon and see, but that would be the "right" way to handle this. As I said, as long as your front buffer is large enough to cover the new size it should show up and work. robert. --=20 Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD --=-lZV26o/F2cPdUlLpII5d Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkodQOUACgkQM4TrQ4qfROOcXgCeK0JTa8ocur8RbtHklFM388vh m+AAn0PG3vFmEam4L+ujH7T3trqtjzFW =iu+J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-lZV26o/F2cPdUlLpII5d--
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