Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 15:56:19 -0400 From: "J.M. Warenda" <warendaj@home.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: XFree86 Message-ID: <000901c15357$f603f840$4500a8c0@bens1.pa.home.com>
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Alrighty.
I've been running FreeBSD for several years on various machines now ...
I certainly don't consider myself an expert or anything by any stretch of
the imagination ... but I think I know my way around by now. There is one
thing that I've remained confused by to this day, however.
X video configuration.
I recently reinstalled my FreeBSD box after making some radical changes
... and by the way, my thanks to Vivek Khera and Wayne Cuddy for their
responses to my FA311 question, cards are working great, thanks for the
heads up ... and I've undertaken the task of tuning things to my taste again
from the ground up. Spring cleaning, just you know ... without the Spring.
I've got an old 2meg S3 Trio64 PCI video card running on an AAmazing
(definately not to be confused with the adjective) 14" monitor ... I know,
less than stellar, but it serves it's purpose well. Anyhoo ... I've never
quite gotten the hang of setting up X video settings. Right now it's in
1024x768 16bpp but the refresh rate is going to make me blind in a day or
two. I don't have the hardware information for the monitor ... I'm not sure
if there is a known hardware list it might be on somewhere? I'm also not
sure how these ranges translate into what display rates are actually used.
What I do know is that I'm not particularly looking forward to my eyeballs
exploding any time soon, so if anyone could help me better understand this
process, it would be MUCH apprechiated.
I realize that I'm asking a big question here ... I'm almost certain
this has to have already been written and likely bound in several volumes
somewhere ... so if that's the case, a heads up and an URL will suffice.
Either way, thanks in advance, this list is a lifesaver.
-John
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