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Date:      Fri, 23 May 2003 21:32:30 -0400
From:      "Vlad D.Markov" <markov@monmouth.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XF86 screen resolution changes on a laptop
Message-ID:  <20030523213230.72d24b39.markov@monmouth.com>
In-Reply-To: <447k8hpn18.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
References:  <3ECC33D6.3020406@ica.net> <447k8hpn18.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>

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I had a similar problem. I forgot to enter the horizontal and Vertical
refresh rates of the monitor after I had XFree86 build the config file.
I am still surprised X worked at all. It was one ugly display.

On 23 May 2003 13:53:39 -0400
Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> wrote:

> Chris Young <propwash@ica.net> writes:
> 
> > I'm a complete newbie to FreeBSD who just installed 4.8 on an IBM
> > 1161-
> > 41g laptop. I managed to get xf86 installed, up, and running. One
> > small problem; I can't seem to get the hotkey combo that changes the
> > screen resolution to work. I checked the PAO site docs for help but
> > to no avail. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> You mean the ctrl-alt-+ (and minus) combinations?
> Those only change the resolution if more than one screen mode passed
> the initial configuration as valid.
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