From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 10 20:35:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FD116A41F for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:35:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B75E943D45 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:35:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id jAAKZDG1005347 for ; Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:35:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <4373AF01.1090203@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:35:13 -0600 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <810a540e0511100310s33a8241aj607cbbe23d76d38e@mail.gmail.com> <27EC1BA2-04E6-4E20-89C7-CE7CE8BFCD40@u.washington.edu> <810a540e0511101107o79d5ad73g6f49357eca79d58e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: "Out of range" starting Xorg on dual display X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:35:15 -0000 Garrett Cooper wrote: > Pat, > That's not the actual refresh range for the monitor, it's just the > currently used range. > What you want to do is search for "{maker} {model} horizontal > refresh" in google; the pages which come up are the ones you want to > refer to for your xorg.conf configuration. If the maker was tremendously foresighted, the information you need may appear in the small print on the back or bottom of the monitor itself. If not, you may find it handy to inscribe the H and V rate ranges there with a Sharpie marker once you find it. I've been through this particular annoyance a couple of times now, that's now my standard practice upon taking a new monitor out of the shipping carton. Finding the information on the web (or even in the product manual) is not always easy, and the xorg automated config tools can't always guess right. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348