How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates?

[Victor Engmark]

On 4/30/07, Erik Osterholm <erik-freebsd at erikosterholm.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:33:03PM +0200, Victor Engmark wrote:
> > On 4/30/07, J65nko <j65nko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >Follow the FBSD handbook to do a  'Xorg -configure' and a test run of
> > >X with the generated Xorg.conf file.
> >
> >
> > I did.
> >
> > Then have a look at your your '/var/log/Xorg.0.log'. You will find a
> > >log of  X using DDC  to interrogate your LCD screen for it's
> > >capabilities and the acceptable modelines
> >
> >
> > Nope. Already tried that, and the capabilities were /not/ listed in the
> log,
> > the way it was described in several tutorials.
> >
> > <rant>This is starting to look like one of the most common problems in
> > F/OSS: Theory != Practice. In theory, any one of the methods already
> tried
> > and suggested here should work. In practice, the "documentation"
> > (MonitorsDB) is wrong (at least according to x.org), and none of the
> quoted
> > methods work the way they should. An interesting result is that there
> are
> > several fundamentally different tutorials for several closely related
> > *nixes, all of which work only on a small subset of
> installations.</rant>
>
> Could you post your Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf?  When Theory !=
> Practice, it's often helpful to have information like this to help
> determine what went wrong, so that in the future, Theory can ==
> Practice.
>

Here you go: /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log from this morning.

-- 
Victor Engmark
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds
profound
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