Date: 22 Sep 2010 08:11:17 -0000 From: Scott Ballantyne <sdb@ssr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Widescreen Monitor and X Help please Message-ID: <20100922081117.1785.qmail@ssr.com>
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Hello, I'm upgrading from FreeBSD 5.3 to 8.1 --- much wonderful work has been done clearly, I'm very impressed and hat's off to the developers. Unfortunately I've hit a snag with X. I have an LG "Flatron" W2253, a 5750 graphics card and I have not been able to get them to work with X at all. Following the handbook's instructions: Xorg -config xorg.conf.new with and without the -retro option just give me a black screen from which there is no escape. I have to log into the machine from somewhere else on the network to reboot it. Killing the Xorg process doesn't help. Following the instructions on widescreen monitors, I have extracted a modeline from the log files: Section "Monitor" #DisplaySize 490 320 # mm Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "LG (GSM)" ModelName "W2253" # HorizSync 30.0 - 83.0 # VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 ModeLine "1920x1080" 138.5 1920 1968 2000 2080 1080 1083 1088 1111 # Option "DPMS" EndSection And I have modified the screen as follows: Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1920x1080" EndSubSection EndSection None of this has helped. If anyone can assist me, I would be very grateful. Thanks a lot, Scott -- sdb@ssr.com
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