From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 17 00:40:33 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E7E2106566B for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 00:40:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zb@ispid.com.pl) Received: from v005705.home.net.pl (v005705.home.net.pl [212.85.118.117]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 554718FC1C for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 00:40:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zb@ispid.com.pl) Received: from 444.net.autocom.pl (HELO localhost) (zb.ispid@onet@77.236.6.157) by m022.home.net.pl with SMTP; Sat, 17 May 2008 00:13:47 -0000 Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 02:13:57 +0200 From: Zbigniew Baniewski To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080517001357.GA21271@sarge.my.own.domain.no-net> References: <20080510131932.GA5444@sarge.my.own.domain.no-net> <200805102123.22952.shoesoft@gmx.net> <20080510193445.GA6432@sarge.my.own.domain.no-net> <200805110923.40726.shoesoft@gmx.net> <20080511095201.GA5278@sarge.my.own.domain.no-net> <20080513003603.GA11033@in-addr.com> <20080513123930.GA10693@sarge.my.own.domain.no-net> <20080516232738.GA63463@in-addr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080516232738.GA63463@in-addr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD7/xorg/radeon: Section "Screen" totally ignored X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 00:40:33 -0000 On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:27:38PM -0400, Gary Palmer wrote: > I suspect what you're seeing is that X tries much harder now to > give the best display on a given monitor. But isn't the user the one to say, what is best for him? Anyway, it doesn't allow to use --<+ -> as resolution switch, so most likely it's a bug. It's not just a problem with initial resolution, but - most of all - that it's only resolution available. > Older X's didn't really care much and did whatever the config file said. It's the proper behaviour. > I don't have any old X installs lying around to prove that one way or the > other unfortunately. > Have you tried using xrandr ( /usr/ports/x11/xrandr ) to see if you > can reduce the resultion? It'll probably even work from > .xinitrc or .xsession xrandr is changing the resolution, but it's workaround, not a solution. There's a bug to be fixed. I don't know, whether it's FreeBSD-related, or xorg-related - but surely there's something broken. > /usr/local/bin/xrandr -mode 800x600 -fb 1280x1024 > > I think should do what you want. > > (note that this would be much better over on freebsd-x11 - this is an > X problem, not a multimedia problem - Reply-to set appropriately) I'm afraid, I have to subscribe it first probably. -- pozdrawiam / regards Zbigniew Baniewski