Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 14:22:47 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: David <freebsd@telaman.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Screen recognition. Message-ID: <20230104142247.4f9d54d94be49368d7246e6d@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <d29482ac-a7b3-fe2c-79d7-4046d6960abe@telaman.net.au> References: <d29482ac-a7b3-fe2c-79d7-4046d6960abe@telaman.net.au>
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On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 18:03:04 +1000 David <freebsd@telaman.net.au> wrote: > Hullo, > > > Struggling a bit with my first FreeBSD install. > > Mouse and keyboard are detected without any trouble, but the monitor, a > Dahua LM24-S420, is not giving a lot of joy. This monitor usually works > at 1920x1080 @ 60Hz, but is not delivering anything like that now. > Current spec is 1024x768. > > xrandr states: > > xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default > Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768 This looks like your video card is being driven in VESA mode, you should probably (AMD or Intel video) install the drm-kmod package and set up the appropriate kld_list line in /etc/rc.conf (see the package message for details tl;dr one of "amdgpu", "i915kms" or "radeonkms" depending on chipset). It's been a while since I've had any nVidia hardware so I'll defer to others on that. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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