From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 17 00:15:25 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 082EC106566B for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:15:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8608FC0A for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:15:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oAH0FNhc036964; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:15:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id oAH0FNJ5036961; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:15:23 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:15:23 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block To: Andrea Venturoli In-Reply-To: <4CE30C07.2090006@netfence.it> Message-ID: References: <4CE30C07.2090006@netfence.it> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:15:23 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X resolution 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: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 00:15:25 -0000 On Tue, 16 Nov 2010, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > > I've configured my X to use a 1600x1200 resolution (or so I thought...). > It used to work until the last X.Org upgrade; after that it *usually* worked: > very rarely it would start at 2048x1536, but a couple of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace > was normally enough. > > Since a couple of day, it always start at 2048x1536, and there is no way to > get 1600x1200 unless I login and change resolution afterwards (which is > however enought to mess all my KDE fonts up). It sounds like the EDID information isn't always working. Check your video cable to see if a pin is bent over, or try a different one. > I've got this in my xorg.conf: > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "SyncMaster" > Device "Card0" > Monitor "SyncMaster" > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 32 > Modes "1600x1200" > EndSubSection > EndSection 32 is not a valid depth, according to xorg.conf(5). > Of course I can provide full xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log, but they are quite > long... xorg.conf is usually not a problem. Log files can be posted on the web somewhere, like pastebin.com. > Card is a Radeon HD 4200. What is the monitor?