From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 04:51:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5128E16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:51:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA12043D31 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:51:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:51:05 -0500 Message-ID: <414FB335.4060705@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:51:01 -0500 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Connolly References: <000101c49f5f$295c4980$9a11a8c0@d3stomc> In-Reply-To: <000101c49f5f$295c4980$9a11a8c0@d3stomc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Sep 2004 04:51:06.0374 (UTC) FILETIME=[9AC52A60:01C49F96] cc: 'FreeBSD_Questions' Subject: Re: Resolution problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:51:07 -0000 Tom Connolly wrote: >My Sync/Refresh rates are consistent with my monitor documentation but >offhand, I'm not sure what they are. I will check when I get on my box. > > > I found out last night (celebrating one year of FBSD on the desktop) that I could gain a higher resolution by increasing those numbers. YMMV, and there are some warnings that probably have merit, or they wouldn't be warning us, right? Here's what I did. 1. Save/close everthing on the "desktop". 2. Switch to console on ttyv1, edit Xf86config, raising top of sync/refresh ranges. 3. kill -HUP {pid of Xfree86} ... system would send me to ttyv0 (GUI). 4. If monitor complains "out of range", switch to ttyv1 again... 5. edit Xf86config, *lowering* sync/refresh ranges. 6. Back to step #3.... After several "loops", I got a display back on ttyv0, and logged in to GNOME (environment of choice), which now allows me to choose at least 1280x1024 ... quid pro quo: I chose a higher res [1600x1200] in GNOME, once since then, and had to salvage the session on ttyv1 'cause GNOME didn't reset things automagically...fortunately no big files unsaved there.... YMMV, of course. Kevin Kinsey