Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:19:01 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com> To: "Perry Hutchison" <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Too many Xorg modes Message-ID: <54db43990608251519x40bfa28eleb6306453881f5b5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54db43990608251516q74bd2c21j42ce2c6647dfa99c@mail.gmail.com> References: <10608242243.AA18791@pluto.rain.com> <54db43990608251516q74bd2c21j42ce2c6647dfa99c@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/25/06, Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/24/06, Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> 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.) > > I don't know if there is an easier way, but I just copy the modelines > I like from the log and paste them in the xorg.conf file. Put them in > the "Monitor" section. To address your second paragraph: in my case at least, including explicit modelines suppresses the automatic modes. I only get the ones explicitly listed. This has worked in both XFree86 and Xorg. - Bob
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