From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 04:04:55 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA05516A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 04:04:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 864D343D31 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 04:04:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1S43Wk8062570; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:33:34 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Gary Kline Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:33:32 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.92 References: <20050226110651.0a20301b.gstewart@bonivet.net> <200502271136.44681.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20050228022547.GA49848@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050228022547.GA49848@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2009294.psbxhnxSMo"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200502281433.33152.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -5.1 () IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_03_05,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_KMAIL X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: Godwin Stewart cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg 6.8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 04:04:55 -0000 --nextPart2009294.psbxhnxSMo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:55, Gary Kline wrote: > > FYI X.Org should have just used your XF86-4 config file by default. > > XF86Config bombed instantly, even with startx. > This afternoon after hours of testing one-change-at-a-time > I found that the DefaultDepth of 8 is at least one thing that > bombs. 24 works, but the max size with "X -pconfigure"s > xorg.conf only 1152x863(?). A DefaultDepth of 16 gives me > 1880x1024, which is what works best for here. Did you read the log file? This will more than likely give you a good clue as to what it's barfing on.. > I'm still having troubl getting the Horz and Vert sync numbers > right. This is probably why the GUI apps "quiver" whenever I > try anything. My CRT is trying to tell me something when going > blank by printing error message about "INVALID SYNC" and so > on. _So_ is there any tool that will auto-configure the > horizontal/vertical ranges? I didn't see xvidtune in the > X11R6 bin directory, but don't think it had this capability. > (FWIW, my tube is a Hitachi SuperScan Eltire751.) Your monitor is supposed to tell the X server what it's capable of, but som= e=20 are dumb and don't seem to do it properly. You can hard code it if you find out the monitors specs (eg manual, web sit= e). =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2009294.psbxhnxSMo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCIpgV5ZPcIHs/zowRAl2+AJsE0NpPeSP/CsRip2qlWdrM3wCdwgCgkhe0 q9X6n07762EDY0soWKbpx70= =Gptt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2009294.psbxhnxSMo--