From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 4:15:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shockwave.systems.pipex.net (shockwave.systems.pipex.net [62.190.223.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A51E37B408 for ; Sat, 18 May 2002 04:15:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ThisAddressDoesNotExist (userhh092.dsl.pipex.com [62.190.215.92]) by shockwave.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A2F160008E0; Sat, 18 May 2002 12:15:09 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: How do I set the resolution for a new monitor? From: "S. Roberts" Reply-To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com To: Matthias Buelow Cc: FreeBSD-Questions In-Reply-To: <20070518040119.GA37439@altair.mukappabeta.net> References: <1021670265.751.6.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <20070518013752.GA25364@altair.mukappabeta.net> <1021687406.306.10.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <20070518040119.GA37439@altair.mukappabeta.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-gM/ooyNVU2RNDLyKQ2iE" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 18 May 2002 12:10:38 +0100 Message-Id: <1021720239.306.27.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 --=-gM/ooyNVU2RNDLyKQ2iE Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Thanks for the advice. I looked at those sections in /etc/XF86Config, but there isn't a field / variable called "DefaultDepth" anywhere that I can set to our suggested values. I've included the graphics and display sections of the config file for you guys. Please tell me what it is that I have to reset here. The monitor was okay last night, but today, its starting to give me grief to look at for long periods now. This *can't* be this difficult, and I wish I knew the secret switches and magic to get this to work as its supposed to. The monitor and graphics cards aren't exactly exotic by any stretch. Someone please help. Stacey File section: # ********************************************************************** # Graphics device section # ********************************************************************** # Any number of graphics device sections may be present # Standard VGA Device: Section "Device" Identifier "Generic VGA" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" Chipset "generic" # VideoRam 256 # Clocks 25.2 28.3 EndSection # Sample Device for accelerated server: # Section "Device" # Identifier "Actix GE32+ 2MB" # VendorName "Actix" # BoardName "GE32+" # Ramdac "ATT20C490" # Dacspeed 110 # Option "dac_8_bit" # Clocks 25.0 28.0 40.0 0.0 50.0 77.0 36.0 45.0 # Clocks 130.0 120.0 80.0 31.0 110.0 65.0 75.0 94.0 # EndSection # Sample Device for Hercules mono card: # Section "Device" # Identifier "Hercules mono" # EndSection # Device configured by xf86config: Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Rage Xpert 98" VendorName "ATI Technologies" BoardName "ATI Rage Xpert 98" #VideoRam 8192 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection # ********************************************************************** # Screen sections # ********************************************************************** # The Colour SVGA server Section "Screen" Driver "svga" Device "Generic VGA" #Device "ATI Rage Xpert 98" Monitor "Sun 21 inch" Subsection "Display" Depth 8 #Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 320 200 #Virtual 1600 1280 EndSubsection EndSection # The 16-color VGA server Section "Screen" Driver "vga16" Device "Generic VGA" Monitor "Sun 21 inch" Subsection "Display" Modes "640x480" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection EndSection # The Mono server Section "Screen" Driver "vga2" Device "Generic VGA" Monitor "Sun 21 inch" Subsection "Display" Modes "640x480" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection EndSection # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64) Section "Screen" Driver "accel" Device "ATI Rage Xpert 98" Monitor "Sun 21 inch" Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 1600 1280 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 1152 900 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection EndSection # On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 05:01, Matthias Buelow wrote: > S. Roberts writes: >=20 > > I ended up running XF86Config to get the display resolution set in > >the end (thanks to all those that replied earlier). However, despite > >this, I have to say that my colour settings have now been messed up. > > > >Where before I at least had clean crisp colours, now I have this grainy > >finish to everything. I'll try to see what I can do with it for now, but > >I'm not happy with what I'm getting out of this monitor. > > > >The graphics card's the ATI 8MB XPERT98 that worked brilliantly with my > >15" monitor, but somehow this 21" monitor with supposedly higher > >resolution capabilities just isn't happy here. > > > >For completeness sake's I'll include the relevant bits of the configs > >created after running XF86Config. Hopefully someone'll point out some > >silly oversight on my part. >=20 > Make sure you're not running in 8bpp mode or such... try to add a > "DefaultDepth 24" (or 32 if supported) to your "Screen" section. > This will always give you a TrueColor display, instead of a PseudoColor > (8 planes) one, in which certain applications may dither colors to > make up for the small color space ("grainy finish"). >=20 > On a XFree4 XF86Config (in this part should be the same with XF3) > this would look similar to the following: >=20 > ... > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen 1" > Device "radeon7500" > Monitor "hansol" > DefaultDepth 24 >=20 > Subsection "Display" > ... >=20 >=20 > --mkb >=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 --=-gM/ooyNVU2RNDLyKQ2iE 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 Hi, Thanks for the advice. I looked at those sections in /etc/XF86Config, but there isn't a field / variable called "DefaultDepth" anywhere that I can set to our suggested values. I've included the graphics and display sections of the config file for you guys. Please tell me what it is that I have to reset here. The monitor was okay last night, but today, its starting to give me grief to look at for long periods now. This *can't* be this difficult, and I wish I knew the secret switches and magic to get this to work as its supposed to. The monitor and graphics cards aren't exactly exotic by any stretch. Someone please help. Stacey File section: # ********************************************************************** # Graphics device section # ********************************************************************** # Any number of graphics device sections may be present # Standard VGA Device: Section "Device" Identifier "Generic VGA" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "Unknown" Chipset "generic" # VideoRam 256 # Clocks 25.2 28.3 EndSection # Sample Device for accelerated server: # Section "Device" # Identifier "Actix GE32+ 2MB" # VendorName "Actix" # BoardName "GE32+" # Ramdac "ATT20C490" # Dacspeed 110 # Option "dac_8_bit" # Clocks 25.0 28.0 40.0 0.0 50.0 77.0 36.0 45.0 # Clocks 130.0 120.0 80.0 31.0 110.0 65.0 75.0 94.0 # EndSection # Sample Device for Hercules mono card: # Section "Device" # Identifier "Hercules mono" # EndSection # Device configured by xf86config: Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Rage Xpert 98" VendorName "ATI Technologies" BoardName "ATI Rage Xpert 98" #VideoRam 8192 # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate EndSection # ********************************************************************** # Screen sections # ********************************************************************** # The Colour SVGA server Section "Screen" Driver "svga" Device "Generic VGA" #Device "ATI Rage Xpert 98" Monitor "Sun 21 inch" Subsection "Display" Depth 8 #Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 320 200 #Virtual 1600 1280 EndSubsection EndSection # The 16-color VGA server Section "Screen" Driver "vga16" Device "Generic VGA" Monitor "Sun 21 inch" Subsection "Display" Modes "640x480" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection EndSection # The Mono server Section "Screen" Driver "vga2" Device "Generic VGA" Monitor "Sun 21 inch" Subsection "Display" Modes "640x480" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 800 600 EndSubsection EndSection # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX, W32, Mach64) Section "Screen" Driver "accel" Device "ATI Rage Xpert 98" Monitor "Sun 21 inch" Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 1600 1280 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 1280 1024 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 1152 900 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 32 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" ViewPort 0 0 Virtual 1024 768 EndSubsection EndSection # On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 05:01, Matthias Buelow wrote: > S. Roberts writes: >=20 > > I ended up running XF86Config to get the display resolution set in > >the end (thanks to all those that replied earlier). However, despite > >this, I have to say that my colour settings have now been messed up. > > > >Where before I at least had clean crisp colours, now I have this grainy > >finish to everything. I'll try to see what I can do with it for now, but > >I'm not happy with what I'm getting out of this monitor. > > > >The graphics card's the ATI 8MB XPERT98 that worked brilliantly with my > >15" monitor, but somehow this 21" monitor with supposedly higher > >resolution capabilities just isn't happy here. > > > >For completeness sake's I'll include the relevant bits of the configs > >created after running XF86Config. Hopefully someone'll point out some > >silly oversight on my part. >=20 > Make sure you're not running in 8bpp mode or such... try to add a > "DefaultDepth 24" (or 32 if supported) to your "Screen" section. > This will always give you a TrueColor display, instead of a PseudoColor > (8 planes) one, in which certain applications may dither colors to > make up for the small color space ("grainy finish"). >=20 > On a XFree4 XF86Config (in this part should be the same with XF3) > this would look similar to the following: >=20 > ... > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen 1" > Device "radeon7500" > Monitor "hansol" > DefaultDepth 24 >=20 > Subsection "Display" > ... >=20 >=20 > --mkb >=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. 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