question on my screen resolution

Sherry Zhang yuleopen at gmail.com
Tue Oct 31 01:15:24 UTC 2006


On 10/31/06, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> Frank Shute wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:37:47AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> >
> >> Sherry Zhang wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear Lane:
> >>> thank you for reply
> >>>
> >>> my xorg.conf
> >>>
> >
> > <snip 60+kB of crap>
> >
> >
> >>>> This is probably an xorg issue, not freebsd-specific.  But send a
> copy
> >>>> of /var/log/Xorg.0.log, just for giggles.
> >>>>
> >>>> lane
> >>>>
> >>    I think what Lane meant was:
> >> 1. Change video driver to ati or fglx (or whatever the Opengl version
> of
> >> the ati driver is).


there is no fglrx driver for BSD. what's more, ati driver or radeon driver
are too old for my video card.
when I use these, I cannot load X. it says glx missing. but I do have it.


>> 2. Copy that /var/log/Xorg.0.log here (or link to the file from another
> >> site to reduce the size of the email).
> >>    Also, please bottom post.
> >>    Thanks!
> >> -Garrett
> >>
> >
> > You admonish a poster for top posting and suggest linking to logs
> > rather than posting them.


 sorry for my poor mail habits
I wont next time:)

>
> > I agree.
> >
> > Yet simultaneously you include a huge amount of superfluous garbage in
> > your own post. What gives?
> >
>    It was just laziness / forgetfulness most likely that caused that
> garbage dump. Doh!
> > Don't you eat your own dog food? ;)
>    I tend not to eat kibbles and bits, but obviously that's what I did.
> Lol.
> -Garrett
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