From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 17 13:56:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from typhoon.mail.pipex.net (typhoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 298DC37B401 for ; Fri, 17 May 2002 13:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 19807 invoked from network); 17 May 2002 20:56:30 -0000 Received: from userhh092.dsl.pipex.com (HELO ThisAddressDoesNotExist) (62.190.215.92) by smtp-2.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 17 May 2002 20:56:30 -0000 Subject: Re: How do I set the resolution for a new monitor? From: "S. Roberts" Reply-To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: FreeBSD-Questions , owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-BUEV1uXcFnnrYb/8oCX+" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 17 May 2002 21:51:55 +0100 Message-Id: <1021668715.751.0.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-BUEV1uXcFnnrYb/8oCX+ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm running XF863.3.X. This any help? Stacey On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 21:53, chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: >=20 > owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote on 05/17/2002 01:01:49 PM: >=20 > > Hello, > > Sorry if this should be a walk in the park for some, but after > > reading about all the warnings, I thought I'd better ask before "trying > > to sort this" without more info. > > > > I've got a new monitor (Sun 21" FD Premium) and attached it to my > > FreeBSD box. It works fine enough, but my display is currently set to > > 1024 * 768, based on my previous XF86 configs from install time. > > > > The docs for the new monitor says that the recommended resolution t oru= n > > it at is 1280 * 1024 with the following:- > > Horizontal Deflection Freq: 30 - 121 kHz > > Vertical Deflection Freq: 40 - 160 Hz > > > > Could someone please let me know, or point me to how I can "simply" > > reset the resolution to match those above? The sooner the better, if it= s > > not asking too much:-) > > > > Stacey >=20 > Depends on which version of X you are running. If it's 4.x the handbook h= as > all the info you need, read chapter 5 section 4. >=20 > -- > Chip >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer --=-BUEV1uXcFnnrYb/8oCX+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'm running XF863.3.X. This any help? Stacey On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 21:53, chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: >=20 > owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote on 05/17/2002 01:01:49 PM: >=20 > > Hello, > > Sorry if this should be a walk in the park for some, but after > > reading about all the warnings, I thought I'd better ask before "trying > > to sort this" without more info. > > > > I've got a new monitor (Sun 21" FD Premium) and attached it to my > > FreeBSD box. It works fine enough, but my display is currently set to > > 1024 * 768, based on my previous XF86 configs from install time. > > > > The docs for the new monitor says that the recommended resolution t oru= n > > it at is 1280 * 1024 with the following:- > > Horizontal Deflection Freq: 30 - 121 kHz > > Vertical Deflection Freq: 40 - 160 Hz > > > > Could someone please let me know, or point me to how I can "simply" > > reset the resolution to match those above? The sooner the better, if it= s > > not asking too much:-) > > > > Stacey >=20 > Depends on which version of X you are running. If it's 4.x the handbook h= as > all the info you need, read chapter 5 section 4. >=20 > -- > Chip >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message - --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPOVtavdn4A8qiCO5EQJHXQCgn2olD8ReCrzeZ7W+QcgQNkmA798AoPOd 7a40TBakWMeBGDwuzKPEvswd =yb+B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-BUEV1uXcFnnrYb/8oCX+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message