From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 16 01:18:31 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 28D7E16A47E for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:18:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ne.bahn@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B8E243D6A for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:18:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ne.bahn@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so380500wxc for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:18:29 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:from:to:references:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole; b=Kj751qeWZFA44s3p7aJeUeUH/IiCCcTZlChNSr9bhO1q7VaIkEYYmOUqiyNHyyZaSBWXvhHOcYYGglpKZMPMjKF8bVJ2i9/SFOhdd6bXmHi32aaVELY/uFnSR58aTnHVv8xb7UW6O1d/K2Kn66wYrTZPlWWNdGXkOXoyDrArKJ4= Received: by 10.70.36.9 with SMTP id j9mr235923wxj.1163639909393; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:18:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from bloodlust ( [69.60.116.247]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id i35sm2254681wxd.2006.11.15.17.18.24; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 17:18:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <000e01c7091d$13eb7c90$1bd3dcc9@bloodlust> From: "Ne'Bahn" To: "Christian Walther" References: <000e01c708d5$808c67d0$92d3dcc9@bloodlust> <14989d6e0611150858i57e5c8ceicd5fcb0a7f85c7f1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:56:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:16:35 +0000 Cc: Subject: Need help with Gnome and Video card 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, 16 Nov 2006 01:18:31 -0000 my conf looks like: HorizSync 31.5, 35.15, 35.5 VertRefresh 50-70 Section "Device" Identifier "Standard VGA" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" .... Driver "vga" Section "Screen" ... DefaultDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024" ViewPort 0 0 ... So I have the same trouble, very low resolution (BIG characters), and about 4 colors depth (black, white, pink, cyan or some kind similar), like the old ones EGA... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Walther" To: "Ne'Bahn" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need help... > Hi Ne'Bahn, > > it is possible that there is something wrong with your hardware > configuration, but I guess that your X configuration contains the > wrong sort order of display resolutions. > If you look at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xorg.conf you'll find a Section > "screen" somewhere. This is were the resolutions are configured your > laptop (and desktop) is capable to display. > > Important for your situation are the Subsection "Display" lines, which > look like this: > > SubSection "Display" > Depth 16 > Modes "1280x1024" "800x600" "640x480" > EndSubSection > > Now, in your case I guess that the line listing all the modes starts > with the lowest resolution possible. Just change the order, so that > the highest resolution is at the beginning, and you should be fine. > > Restart X after you edited the file, and you should have a resolution > that suites your needs. You might want to look at the parameter > "DefaultDepth", too. If it is set to 8 (8 bit = 256 colors) you might > want to set it to an higher "Depth" value.