Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:34:00 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: "Peter Jeremy" <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two questions Message-ID: <bef9a7920709130034t523732f5x7a548ddd51cb6ca9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070913072812.GE1179@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <bef9a7920709130009x25f0699bg31acba07d111333c@mail.gmail.com> <20070913072812.GE1179@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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On 9/13/07, Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> wrote: > > On 2007-Sep-13 07:09:19 +0000, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> > wrote: > >1) How do I determine what my current resolution and color depth are (i.e > . > >the ones that are actually be used right now)... gnome's screen > resolution > >tool crashs on me > > xdpyinfo Thanks says 1680x1050 which is what I expected (says it supports 32 bit depth but when I try that instead of 24 X fails to init the screen so any ideas would be nice here) >2) I have installed the following configuration and the screen blanks for a > >fraction of a second at arbitrary points (kind of like a "blink") how do > I > >go about debugging/fixing this > > I can't really help with this. Some suggestions to ponder: > Is there anything that is going on when this happens? Before I modified the xorg.conf I thought is was heavy I/O (disk?) but that seems to be less of an issue now that I have the above settings in effect (right before you sent this I was thinking it might be calling some kind of sync at the wrong time?) Are you able to (temporarily) swap the monitor with another system to > confirm that it's your system and not a monitor problem. No since the card only supports DVI and the current monitor is the only DVI one I have. --Aryeh
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