Video Driver

[Adam Stern]

I ran xorgconfig and created a file and it worked!  Thanks for your
help!

- Adam

-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Smith [mailto:rsmith at xs4all.nl] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:06 PM
To: Adam Stern
Subject: Re: Video Driver

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:20:53AM -0400, Adam Stern wrote:
> I tried Ctrl+Alt+Keypad-Plus- but it didn't switch it to a higher,
just
> zoomed in and out.
> 
> I don't have an xorg.conf anywhere in my filesystem.  Is that a
problem?

Yes. Without one, Xorg uses default settings, which will work but will
not be optimal. :-)

You could try using xorgconfig. This is an interactive program to help
you in building an xorg.conf file. It is important to have as much data
as possible about your monitor (and graphics card) ready, since it
apparently cannot communicate with the graphics card. At minimum you
should know the horizontal and vertical refresh frequencies.

If X is already running you could try xorgcfg instead.

> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.7 Build Operating System:
> FreeBSD 5.3 i386 [ELF] 

You might want to consider updating to R5.4 with Xorg 6.8.2.

> (II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2,

Looks like you have an NVidia graphics chip, so you should use the "nv"
driver.

> (II) Loading sub module "i2c"
> (II) LoadModule: "i2c"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libi2c.a
> (II) Module i2c: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> 	compiled for 6.7.0, module version = 1.2.0
> 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
> (II) Loading sub module "ddc"
> (II) LoadModule: "ddc"
> (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a
> (II) Module ddc: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
> 	compiled for 6.7.0, module version = 1.0.0
> 	ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7
> (II) NV(0): I2C bus "DDC" initialized.
> (II) NV(0): Probing for analog device on output A...
> (--) NV(0):   ...found one
> (II) NV(0): Probing for analog device on output B...
> (--) NV(0):   ...can't find one
> (II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus A...
> (II) NV(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
> (II) NV(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed.
> (II) NV(0):   ... none found
> (II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus B...
> (II) NV(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
> (II) NV(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed.
> (II) NV(0):   ... none found
> (--) NV(0): CRTC 0 appears to have a CRT attached
> (II) NV(0): Using CRT on CRTC 0

Hmm, looks like your monitor is so old it doesn't support
autoconfiguration via ddc. Bummer.

> (II) NV(0): Builtin Default Monitor: Using default hsync range of
> 28.00-33.00 kHz
> (II) NV(0): Builtin Default Monitor: Using default vrefresh range of
> 43.00-72.00 Hz

These builtin refresh frequencies are pretty low. Most monitors support
higher.

> (II) NV(0): Clock range:  12.00 to 350.00 MHz

This is the clock frequency of the graphics chip. Keep that in mind.

> (**) Option "TargetRefresh" "75.0"
> (--) NV(0): Virtual size is 640x480 (pitch 640)
> (**) NV(0): *Default mode "640x480": 25.2 MHz, 31.5 kHz, 60.0 Hz
> (II) NV(0): Modeline "640x480"   25.20  640 656 752 800  480 490 492
525
> -hsync -vsync
> (**) NV(0): *Default mode "320x240": 12.6 MHz, 31.5 kHz, 60.1 Hz (D)
> (II) NV(0): Modeline "320x240"   12.60  320 328 376 400  240 245 246
262
> doublescan -hsync -vsync

See that the defaults are pretty lame?

I have attached my xorg.conf, just to give you an impression of what it
looks like. _Don't use it_, it will probably not work and might destroy
your monitor.

Drop me a line if you get stuck with xorgconfig or xorgcfg.

Roland
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