Advice on integrated video on friends system

[James Earl]

I've included HorizSync, and VertRefresh for the monitor's specs.  Is
there more that's needed in this case?  The monitor that I'm currently
testing with is a Samsung 193P.  I also tested on a Samsung 171S, and
an old CRT.


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 15:35:51 -0600, Henry Miller <hmiller at intradyn.com> wrote:
> 
> I'd start by getting the specs for the monitor and manually entering
> them into the xorg.conf file.  This looks to me like the case of the
> monitor shutting itself down because the sync is out of the supported
> range.
> 
> man xorg.conf
> man Xservers
> 
> 
> On 3/15/2005 at 14:27 James Earl wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >A good friend of mine asked me to setup FreeBSD and GNOME on his home
> >computer for his family to use.  It is an old IBM Aptiva.  The usual
> >stuff works, but of course it has to have integrated video: ATI Rage
> >Pro Turbo chipset.
> >
> >I'm running the latest Xorg in the ports tree and started with a
> >configuration file using 'Xorg -configure'.  No matter what I've tried
> >(no accel, no dri, defaultdepth 8, 16, Modes 800x600, 640x480), all
> >the results have been the same, even when trying to run xorgcfg...
> >when I run startx, my monitor blanks, and either tells me it's an
> >unsupported video mode, or the screen just goes blank.  Doing
> >ctrl+alt+backspace doesn't restore my text mode, but I am able to
> >reboot the system using ctrl+alt+del, or I can even type 'shutdown -p
> >now' (but nothing is displayed).
> >
> >Could anyone suggest any additional course of action, or is this
> >chipset clearly unsupported?  It's really hard for me to give up on
> >this... it's not too often that I get to setup someone with FreeBSD
> >and GNOME (has only happened to me once before this).
> >
> >James
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