From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 17:15:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FACB1065671 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:15:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamk@voicenet.com) Received: from spamfish.visualtech.com (mail.visualtech.com [208.16.19.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3839F8FC08 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 17:15:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adamk@voicenet.com) Received: from mailstore.visualtech.com (unknown [10.4.1.7]) by spamfish.visualtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D73DD1F410C; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:49:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from memory.netops.dci.lan (unknown [10.1.3.8]) by mailstore.visualtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57ADADC20A; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:57:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam K Kirchhoff To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:58:00 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.0 (FreeBSD/7.0-STABLE; KDE/4.1.0; i386; ; ) References: <20080904142730.GA7078@aurora.oekb.co.at> In-Reply-To: <20080904142730.GA7078@aurora.oekb.co.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200809041158.01059.adamk@voicenet.com> X-visualtech.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-visualtech.com-MailScanner-From: adamk@voicenet.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: ATI Radeon 2400XT - screen goes blank X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:15:38 -0000 On Thursday 04 September 2008 10:27:30 Ewald Jenisch wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a ATI Radeon 2400XT card in a Dell Optiplex 740 system > running under FreebSD 7.x (i.e. fully updated as per today > wrt. kernel, system and ports) > > Following "the handbook" I've configured xorg.conf using "Xorg > -configure" followed by "X -config /root/xorg.conf.new". > > The only thing that happens is that the screen goes blank and the > monitor writes a message "out of Range". > > Tried with numerous "Modes" like "1280x1024", "1024x768" - I've even > created a custom modeline using the hints in > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html > - to no extent. > > BTW, the monitor in question is a Hanns-G "JC198D" capable of 1280x1024 > > Has anybody else seen this problem with a ATI 2400XT - and even more > interesting, what can I do against it? > > I'm including both the xorg.conf as well as /var/log/Xorg.0.log. > > Thanks much in advance for any clue, > -ewald In the monitor section, try adding: Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024" or even: Option "PreferredMode" "Custom-settings" Adam -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.