From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 24 22:59:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 282CB16A4DA for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:59:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from rwcrmhc15.comcast.net (rwcrmhc15.comcast.net [204.127.192.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CACE443D46 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:59:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from gimpy (c-24-118-173-219.hsd1.mn.comcast.net[24.118.173.219]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc15) with ESMTP id <20060824225902m1500t5t55e>; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:59:02 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 17:59:01 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <10608242243.AA18791@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <10608242243.AA18791@pluto.rain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608241759.01764.josh@tcbug.org> Subject: Re: Too many Xorg modes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:59:04 -0000 On Thursday 24 August 2006 17:43, Perry Hutchison wrote: > In 6.1, how would I set up xorg.conf to restrict Xorg to a few > specific modes? The Xorg.8.log created during xorgcfg shows 24 > modelines, but when I cycle through the modes using CtrlAltPlus > there are two which don't work at all and the remaining 22 cover > only 8 resolutions (of which only about 3 seem likely to actually > be useful.) > > A search for "modeline" in the docs and manpages turned up nothing > applicable beyond xorg.conf(5), which does not describe how to > prevent the implicit inclusion of built-in modes whose names do > not match any explicitly-specified modes. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" The easiest way to do this is manually remove the modes you don't use from your xorg config. The config can be in a couple of different places, your log will show where it is. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel