From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 1 18:34:43 2011 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 6B46E106564A for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 18:34:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnorwick@centurytel.net) Received: from mail962c35.nsolutionszone.com (mail962c35.nsolutionszone.com [209.235.152.152]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF718FC08 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 18:34:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Authenticated-User: mnorwick.centurytel.net Received: from blacky.norwickhouse.net (174-124-57-49.dyn.centurytel.net [174.124.57.49] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by mail962c35.nsolutionszone.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id p01IYesm008101 for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2011 18:34:41 GMT Message-ID: <4D1F73BF.7090506@centurytel.net> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:34:39 -0600 From: "Michael D. Norwick" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100629 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4D1E9A62.1040502@centurytel.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=1.1 cv=R01sVMDNjbNhvcC8XU3DMjW3O4aLU9Ofq1NiLpBMeGs= c=1 sm=1 a=HQw7bNSt654A:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=7kxGxhHi0jr6GTuHlZLkNQ==:17 a=1t2bNnETVPw8i05NbjsA:9 a=CfJV80_piYgj5bw3eBEA:7 a=8_rVOgGHap937wi3mbKrhB1vxQsA:4 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=7kxGxhHi0jr6GTuHlZLkNQ==:117 Subject: Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1 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: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 18:34:43 -0000 On 01/01/2011 10:25, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Michael D. Norwick wrote: > >> I bought >> Identifier "Monitor0" >> VendorName "HWP" >> ModelName "HP 2010" >> HorizSync 24.0 - 83.0 >> VertRefresh 50.0 - 76.0 >> Option "DPMS" >> EndSection > > For a start, remove or comment out the HorizSync and VertRefresh lines. > > Okay, closer. Thank You. I commented out the HorizSync and VertRefresh lines restarted the X session and the screen appeared to fill more but I still had a black bar to the left at 1600x900. Going to Computer -> System Settings -> Computer Administration - Display -> Size and Orientation, I found it at; Size 1600x900 Refresh Auto Changed it to Size 1280x1024 Refresh Auto Still no full screen width. In fact it got narrower. Changed it to Size 1440x900 (which had not been an option previously) The screen appeared to resize to the full width of the display and 'Refresh' now shows 59.9 Hz. This is all quite non-intuitive. I won't be pushing any buttons until I understand the effect. I understand why HorizSync and VertRefresh settings would not be necessary for an LCD display but the xserver obviously knows what it's connected to. Why does it set those? And, where are those commented out option lines in my xorg.conf documented? Thank You, Michael