question on my screen resolution

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Mon Oct 30 21:28:22 UTC 2006


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).
>> 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.
>
> 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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