From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 13 07:34:03 2007 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 EBA3816A418 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:34:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E53413C47E for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:34:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so931442pyb for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:34:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=x6wXos5Xl/aSh64ofnAR56sO1dUJ9GjTXr2UmiyTTOg=; b=dCXjMckY80gc4+cUFixRke8XxUuPMV3F5IgnKCMEPf/pmsgYbQbjZKpRviyTeLIz8bEgF4dSTb9tCcJdqPwONKW19KnabP9c0i8TM3xBzuW1KaeS6QlZoo0UP0l5xYJuaxJiYtlf+y1LxaFYeumDcEGv7CINjQHcrOMAo3JwQNg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=po6hOdtZC10CurSTebiQnJXl7i87EbXgyZMkjRW+2bpMf/LegaKe2HgjHTzLTxocq09MwuNTz/kPQw3PVocSqxKrI53U9quiVLGmloo8VFSLme3hJcrxf6/BAWMat3WuPYq/0ngoYQgiJOqE03Xxvq9B8V6sfUjVzvuieA+5iX8= Received: by 10.65.204.7 with SMTP id g7mr990522qbq.1189668840359; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:34:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.112.4 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:34:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:34:00 +0000 From: "Aryeh Friedman" To: "Peter Jeremy" In-Reply-To: <20070913072812.GE1179@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20070913072812.GE1179@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two questions 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: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:34:04 -0000 On 9/13/07, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On 2007-Sep-13 07:09:19 +0000, Aryeh Friedman > 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