From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 11 17:23:46 2006 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 7651616A41F for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:23:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D7C43D67 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:23:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t16so607525wxc for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:23:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=if6H+Fn0cWCH5gb0Bj5f23b+LqrQMTg5y987mKY9ervEIqJnBNdbs9tPbMoUZaHbk4pSYr1iP/Z/9Kqlddzgr3zertqa496qmUoMYS/pNMGY07g5dEf1ewOpUWMolCCCzdY3iC5Blq2i4niBkvk+qRm8adj0c7r6sBJboq9YUK0= Received: by 10.70.12.18 with SMTP id 18mr1914433wxl; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:23:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.57.13 with HTTP; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 09:23:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:23:42 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20060311160242.GA5933@teddy.fas.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060311160242.GA5933@teddy.fas.com> Cc: stanb@panix.com Subject: Re: Xorg config problems 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: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:23:46 -0000 On 3/11/06, stan wrote: > I recycle old P2 class machines for a set of applications at work. I > switched to Xorg for these machines a while back, and was pleased to find > that I did not have to create a config file for Xorg as it was able to > autodetect all the correct stuff. > > Today, though I ran up on 2 machines that are the older end of the spectr= um > of machines that I use for this, and for some reason this does not seem t= o > be working. snip > (WW) CIRRUS(0): Mode pool is empty > (EE) CIRRUS(0): No valid modes found Usually this means you need to specify your horizontal and vertical sync and refresh rates. I would run: X -configure cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf then add some lines like: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Barfy" HorizSync 31-92 # Taken from my monitor, VertRefresh 55-160 # Don't use these values. EndSection and change Section "Screen" Monitor "Barfy" Frequently on older cards the monitor's capabilities cannot be detected which can lead to very conservative defaults which can lead to no valid modes. There is a database of these values (I've found it to be accurate, if incomplete): http://www.monitorworld.com/monitors_home.html -- --