Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:05:50 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: question about my new Dell 3010 Message-ID: <50C589CE.1000608@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20121210003120.GE30396@ethic.thought.org> References: <20121209002330.GA8528@ethic.thought.org> <50C44DEE.6040601@FreeBSD.org> <20121210003120.GE30396@ethic.thought.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 10/12/2012 00:31, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 08:38:06AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> > On 09/12/2012 00:23, Gary Kline wrote: >>> > > one of the remaining problems --hopefuully the Last-- with my >>> > > Dell 3010 quad i5 is that the resolution stops at 5:4. it's >>> > > something like 1280x1014 whereas my widescreen Dell needs >>> > > 1920x1280 or close to that. do I need to go out and find a >>> > > videocard? or is there a way of taking my 6GB of RAM and giving >>> > > it to the video? >> > Do you have a DVI connector on your current graphics card, or just the >> > old style VGA connector? Pretty much all modern widescreen monitors >> > will have a DVI connector as well as the legacy VGA. > actually, I have both. the KVM dates from 2010 and came with > four cables and eight plugs. Ahah! You're using a KVM switch. That can block the monitor from sending its configuration information to the X server. It's easy to tell: just try connecting directly to the monitor temporarily. If that works, you can use xrandr to extract the monitor details, write a mode line for your xorg.conf and put the KVM back in the loop, while keeping the optimum configuration. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDFidQACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxVzgCfUL4K3/TVXrwMlXjpWYD82IGz dV4Anip63luQLx0aw7Z1phdNuqe1MFu4 =A+mv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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