Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:01:20 -0600 From: Eric Murphy <eam404@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intresting X Question... Message-ID: <437ABD20.90001@earthlink.net>
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Maybe some body can explain this alittle better then my google searchs and other readings. My question is this: Lets say your installing BSD on some workstation, you dont know the hardware specs of the monitor (Vertical and Horizontal rates ect..) and you need to configure Xorg. Its my understanding that Xorg runs getconfig, which determines the video card type and monitor type. Once it has that information it applys the information gatherd to the xorg config. Is that how it works? I was going to say, it cant just test a bunch of differnt monitor rates that could cause damage to the monitor. However today in one of our labs I installed bsd on a machine and was unable to get xorg working properly becuase getconfig wasnt issueing the correct H and V rates for the monitor, I didnt know what to do without having to look it up. Anyway if someone could explain this process I would be much obliged. Thanks
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