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Date:      Wed, 27 May 2009 08:53:10 -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:  <1243432390.2926.2253.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 02:29 -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk@voicenet.com> wrote:
>=20
> > 'xrandr -q' should definitey query your monitors and dump the new
> > information to /var/log/Xorg.0.log if you are using a driver that
> > supports xrandr 1.2.
>=20
> That may be the problem:
>=20
>   $ xrandr --version
>   Server reports RandR version 1.1
>=20
> > If your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file shows that you are using the
> > radeon driver (do you have hundreds of lines starting with
> > "(II) RADEON"?)
>=20
> I have one such line:
>=20
>   (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
>=20
> followed by about a hundred more listing additional ATI chipsets
> (but no more with the "(II) RADEON" prefix).
>=20
> ...
>=20
> > What version of Xorg do you have installed?
>=20
>   $ Xorg -version
>=20
>   X Window System Version 6.9.0
>   Release Date: 21 December 2005
>   X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9
>   Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.1 i386 [ELF]=20
>   Current Operating System: FreeBSD fbsd61 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEAS=
E #30: Mon Jan  1 23:01:34 PST 2007     perryh@fbsd61:/usr/src/sys/i386/com=
pile/GENERIC i386
>   Build Date: 24 March 2006
>           Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
>           to make sure that you have the latest version.
>   Module Loader present

So Adam just pointed out that you are still running 6.9...  You really
should update your installed ports to something more recent.  I was
assuming that you were running relatively current ports.

robert.

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Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
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