From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 2 18:55:08 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3875B16A4C4 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:55:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from smtp224.math.arizona.edu (smtp224.math.arizona.edu [128.196.224.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112D513C467 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:55:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from punosevac@math.arizona.edu) Received: from Debian-exim by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with local-bsmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Io1fp-0004XE-Hg for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:55:24 -0700 Received: from squirrelmail.math.arizona.edu ([128.196.224.241] ident=www-data) by smtp224.math.arizona.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Io1fp-0004XB-GI for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:55:17 -0700 Received: from 71.220.159.235 (SquirrelMail authenticated user punosevac) by squirrelmail.math.arizona.edu with HTTP; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:54:21 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <62786.71.220.159.235.1194029661.squirrel@squirrelmail.math.arizona.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:54:21 -0700 (MST) From: punosevac@math.arizona.edu To: questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Outgoing-Spam-Score: -5.8 (-----) Cc: Subject: Re: Xorg and WSXGA] 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: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:55:08 -0000 ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: Xorg and WSXGA From: punosevac@math.arizona.edu Date: Fri, November 2, 2007 11:38 am To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:49:42AM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote: >> On Thursday 01 November 2007 12:53:11 am Crist J. Clark wrote: >> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 07:50:10PM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: >> > > On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 23:36 -0700, Crist J. Clark wrote: >> > > > I finally dumped the CRT and bought a ridiculusly cheap 20" LCD monitor. Works great except I'm having problems getting it to go widescreen and use the full display area. >> > > > >> > > > I followed the instruction >> > > >> > > xinit -- -verbose 9 -logverbose 9 >> > > >> > > It should print out a list of modes that it _will_ validate. >> > >> > It doesn't really give me any useful additional information >> > that I notice. I still don't understand why it refuses to go for 1680x1050. The log is attached. >> >> Could you attach your xorg.conf? It looks like there is a combination of >> problems keeping it from doing 1680x1050. > > I've tried a few things, but right now, running on defaults and > auto-generated configuration. > -- > Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu > _ Are you running 7.0 or 6.2 ? My Xorg installed on the top of 7.0 kept crashing my old DeLL dimension Pentium III so much so that I went back to 6.2. In your case sounds like the frequency and the colour depth of the monitor picked by Xorg -config are incompatible with the resolution that you want to use. Try playing manually with xorg.conf file or you can try to use the toll xorgconfig which is purely text based to create the xorg.conf file. In the past I was able to use beautifully xorgcfg tool (probably came from Xfree86's tool xf86cfg) but my computer kept complaining that this time does not recognize the command. Any how you also have to read xorg.#.log files very carefully as they are the key to resolve your problems. Good Luck Predrag ______________________________________________ > 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"