Out of Range ..., troubleshoot xorg

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at gmail.com
Sun May 29 02:06:25 UTC 2011


On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>
>> bash-4.1# xrandr -q
>> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1360 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096
>> VGA-1 connected 1360x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
>> axis) 930mm x 523mm
>>  1360x768       60.0*+   59.8
>>  1024x768       60.0
>>  800x600        60.3
>>  640x480        60.0
>>
>>
>> I am looking to try a magical command sort of like
>> xrandr 1360x768 .....
>
> xrandr --output VGA-1 --mode 1360x768
>
> But that's what it's already using, indicated by the *.  Check the menus of
> the TV for an overscan setting, or computer/tv or AV/PC mode.
>

Warren,

That output above was with a linux live cd :(,
I managed to get X working, but the display is HUGE :(

[olivares at tricorehome /usr/home/olivares]$ xrandr -q
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1360 x 768, maximum 1360 x 768
default connected 1360x768+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1360x768       60.0*
   1024x768       60.0
   800x600        60.0     72.0
   640x480        60.0
   512x384        60.0
   400x300        72.0     60.0
   320x240        60.0
[olivares at tricorehome /usr/home/olivares]$

I press CTRL + ALT + (PLUS/MINUS KEYS) on numerical keypad part of keyboard.

[olivares at tricorehome /usr/home/olivares]$ uname -a
FreeBSD tricorehome 8.2-RELEASE-p0 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p0 #0: Sat Apr
2 15:06:58 UTC 2011
root at hybrid.freebsdgr.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
[olivares at tricorehome /usr/home/olivares]$

I have tried messing with the TV menu settings, but that is not
getting me anywhere.

Thank you for your help.  I am closer, but not there yet.

Regards,

Antonio


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