From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 23 11:36:32 2004 Return-Path: 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 BF31816A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:36:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx2.magma.ca (mx2.magma.ca [206.191.0.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F87443D31 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:36:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ebudd@grokking.org) Received: from in3.magma.ca (in3.magma.ca [206.191.0.249]) by mx2.magma.ca (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i7NBaUNo008262 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:36:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.sohotech.ca (ottawa-hs-64-26-169-251.s-ip.magma.ca [64.26.169.251]) by in3.magma.ca (Magma's Mail Server) with ESMTP id i7NBaT0h009238 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:36:30 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (heinlein.sohotech.ca [192.168.1.3]) (authenticated bits=0) by mx1.sohotech.ca (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7NBaR19070770 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:36:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ebudd@grokking.org) Message-ID: <4129D6BB.6050305@grokking.org> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:36:27 -0400 From: Ed Budd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20040816) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <9bd8040384674498826fdcc0cd821081@dharmapublishing.com> In-Reply-To: <9bd8040384674498826fdcc0cd821081@dharmapublishing.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.44 Subject: Re: XFree86 Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:36:32 -0000 Oliver Gould wrote: > Sorry if this is not quite the place for this question but I'm at my wits ends here. I need viable Horizontal sync ranges and vertical refresh rates for my compaq presario laptop 1200-XL118 (13" HPA screen, Trident Cyberblade i7 video card)and I have not been able to find them anywhere. They are not in the online product manuals and the compaq support people have given me ranges that don't work after telling me the info doesn't exist. I have been guessing away and getting close. Is there some sort of autodetect utility? Is my hardware not supported? > > > Thanks ahead of time, > > Oliver Gould > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I had the same problem with my Gateway 200X -- scant information on the video display provided among the company's website documents and more than one call to "tech support" got me little more than "I don't know" and redirection to the Windows-based tools for autodetecting settings. In the end I simply used "X --config" and followed the directions to get a vanilla config. I've occasionally tweaked it when I run into a post somewhere talking about a feature that seems cool or relevant or I'm just feeling particularly brave that day. Start modest and consider it an ongoing project. You may also luck out and find some sample configs for your particular model at "Linux For Laptops" (google this) since the x configuration differs little between OSes. Hope that helps, EB