From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 17 02:23:01 2007 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 7563F16A417 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:23:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A57713C447 for ; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:23:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9H2Mx1d087977; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:22:59 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C2F5AB869; Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:22:58 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 04:22:58 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20071017022258.GA2554@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Gary Kline , FreeBSD Mailing List References: <20071016224722.GA72045@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071016224722.GA72045@thought.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: what's happening with xorg? 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 Oct 2007 02:23:01 -0000 --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:47:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > I'm in the middle of a portupgrade -aP, and saw that the newest > mga driver is installed. > So I did another X -configure, moved the file to > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and carefully tried out the new > xf86-video-mga-1.9.100.. The screen is much brighter at the > resolution is good, but the brightness is still very dingy > compared to the "vesa" driver. There is nothing wrong with my > CRT; on the other KVM connections (and/or) with the vesa driver=20 > at 800x600, the screen is completely bright. Is there some other > "ati" driver yet to finish? =20 The ati driver is for ATI chips like the Radeon. You could try playing with the gamma value of the monitor. When X is running you can use xgamma to adjust the gamma setting. You can also set this with the Gamma entry in the Monitor section of xorg.conf. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHFXICEnfvsMMhpyURAp4DAJ9KACWsGexuFT864O97yBLhJrUg1gCgsLeL ND1nbvBtdcBg3goUvds309I= =ju8A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+--