From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 30 14:56:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68DA16A402 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:56:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from victor.engmark@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.235]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E2BA13C45E for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:56:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from victor.engmark@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so1478974wra for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:56:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=Yl88juZkq3/Imgu5QdPhYvdtI/y6BQkSLq2Ca+mo+sffyFwhnkx9LEG/uLAodnk/nwrWPRjKElqdmOFkKSki5i2Su6Qq7cWhnjkqZU5nrclNx50psGq/vbWPFvbM0p9JeiZpMIqthhMqYp1gr9j4/IfETgrv2ZIG9KZayIy831I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=eTji4XQucJUxSlrmRf2DD1LcDLbjIcnwf2P5Jeqy5a6waC6QnhqSIpsbRd7XNJES5AY6WXTJceGPJKWzf26obmQYnfPM62TWHkpdSFCu36hV7yxBCJQj5d5Smqx+67wZ0/ZFLl+A3pvXc4nvbGJTlofeej7k/pc0IpGrUItnpUo= Received: by 10.114.24.1 with SMTP id 1mr200767wax.1177944990512; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.79.14 with HTTP; Mon, 30 Apr 2007 07:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7d4f41f50704300756q5bf92641vedb63b1fbae36e89@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:56:30 +0200 From: "Victor Engmark" To: "rloefgren@forethought.net" In-Reply-To: <20070430071110.O27416@auden.jmla.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <7d4f41f50704300202y366d468cu61a81b27786130c8@mail.gmail.com> <20070430071110.O27416@auden.jmla.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates? 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, 30 Apr 2007 14:56:36 -0000 On 4/30/07, rloefgren@forethought.net wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Victor Engmark wrote: > > I'm trying to create a pristine xorg.conf, but I've been unable to > > find proper values for HorizSync and VertRefresh for my Dell Latitude > > D610. > > > > I've tried the values presented in MonitorsDB > > > > > for "Dell 1400x1050 Laptop Display Panel", which are HorizSync > > 31.5-90.0 and VertRefresh 59.0-75.0, but I get a warning in > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log for both of them saying they are "not within DDC > > ranges." > > > > I've tried looking around the Dell web pages, but I haven't found any > > pages mentioning these parameters (not too surprising, really). > > > > I've tried to leave these settings out, but even then I get a warning: > > (WW) I810(0): config file hsync range 60-66.3158kHz not within DDC hsync > > ranges. > > > > I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the other warnings I get > > during startup: > > (WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum > > and > > (WW) I810(0): Extended BIOS function 0x5f05 failed. > > > > It seems that a DDC (or, apparently, DDS) query should be able to > > determine these numbers, but > > cd /usr/ports && make search name=ddc && make search name=dds > > doesn't give any tools to deal with this. > > > > The relevant part of /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > > > > Section "Monitor" > > Identifier "Dell Latitude D610 monitor" > > VendorName "SEC" > > ModelName "3450" > > # From Xorg.0.log > > DisplaySize 286 214 > > Option "DPMS" > > EndSection > > Get the info off any labels you might find on your monitor and go to: > www.monitorworld.com > > You might get lucky > Thanks, but no luck. There are no labels (it's a laptop screen), and the Dell product pagedoesn't provide any useful information. Too bad MonitorWorld doesn't allow indexing , or it would actually be searchable (their search sucks). -- Victor Engmark Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds profound