From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 22 02:42:48 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 5A84916A424 for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 02:42:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au) Received: from jay.exetel.com.au (jay.exetel.com.au [220.233.0.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BD4743D45 for ; Mon, 22 May 2006 02:42:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mfitzgerald@pacific.net.au) Received: (qmail 2433 invoked by uid 507); 22 May 2006 12:42:45 +1000 Received: from 28.101.233.220.exetel.com.au (HELO ?192.168.1.100?) (220.233.101.28) by jay.exetel.com.au with SMTP; 22 May 2006 12:42:45 +1000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) In-Reply-To: <20060521204600.7ec583a8@atomizer.opensourcebeef.net> References: <20060521204600.7ec583a8@atomizer.opensourcebeef.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <11993f238957c4571ec9749a674087b6@pacific.net.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Malcolm Fitzgerald Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 12:42:43 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Cc: Subject: Re: Video mode not supported for LCD monitor 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: Mon, 22 May 2006 02:42:48 -0000 On 22/05/2006, at 10:46 AM, rod person wrote: > On Mon, 22 May 2006 10:36:17 +1000 > Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: > >> I've just replaced my trusty CRT screen with a spunky LCD screen. >> After the machine boots I don't see the login window. Instead I see a >> bouncing box that says "Video Mode not Supported". How do I rectify >> this? >> > > You have to correct your vertical refresh in your xorg.conf. > I had to add the line: > VertRefresh 75 > > to the monitor section when I went from CRT to LCD. That didn't work for me. When I use -configure to generate a conf file the Monitor specs seem to fit my monitor but the monitor won't use it. Looking at /var/log/Xorg.0.log I can see that it tries all the modes and says this for each of them: (II) NV(0): Mode "1024x768" is larger than BIOS programmed panel size of 1 x 1. Removing. (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "1024x768" (unknown reason) (II) NV(0): Not using default mode "512X384" (bad mode clock/interlace/doublescan) .... (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found Funnily enough, when I passed Xorg -config a non-existent config file name (by accident) it displayed the black and grey grid with the X in the middle. malcolm