From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 17 14:16:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.simrad.no (mail.simrad.no [193.69.73.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6BE137B405; Fri, 17 May 2002 14:16:43 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: How do I set the resolution for a new monitor? To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com Cc: chip.wiegand@simrad.com, FreeBSD-Questions , owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Build M12_02042002 Pre-release 1 February 04, 2002 Message-ID: From: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 14:17:36 -0700 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on S_INET01/S_EXT(Release 5.0.6a |January 17, 2001) at 17.05.2002 23:17:39 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote on 05/17/2002 01:51:55 PM: > I'm running XF863.3.X. > > This any help? > > Stacey You need to run XF86Config (or XF86Setup), preferably XF86Config. If I recall correctly it is found in /usr/X11R6/ You might want to consider upgrading to XFree86-4. -- Chip > On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 21:53, chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: > > > > owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote on 05/17/2002 01:01:49 PM: > > > > > 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 orun > > > 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 its > > > not asking too much:-) > > > > > > Stacey > > > > Depends on which version of X you are running. If it's 4.x the handbook has > > all the info you need, read chapter 5 section 4. > > > > -- > > Chip > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- > Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science > Network Systems Engineer > > [attachment "signature.asc" removed by Chip Wiegand/USSEA/S/KM/KOG] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message