New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?
Oliver Iberien
odilist at sonic.net
Sun Sep 3 09:01:41 PDT 2006
As usual, as soon as I post, I discover the correct search string to get me to
the answer:
http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/msg147148.html
This poster even bought the same monitor I did. Does anyone know: Will newer
nvidia cards generally work at this resolution? It seems safest just to get
the one he did.
Thanks,
Oliver
> I have a new monitor with the following specs:
> Horiz 31-87 kHz
> Vert 56-75 Hz
> 1680x1050 at 60Hz
>
> Now, this is attached to a windows box with its digital out and a FreeBSD
> box with analog via a Radeon 7500 card. On this last, when I put these new
> settings into xorg.conf, it is not what actually shows up on the screen. It
> ends up being 1600x1000 at 75, says the monitor, more or less, which puts up a
> message complaining about it. It's also offset not in focus.
>
> Somehow, using the old xorg.conf file with all the wrong settings works
> better. There is a little distortion but not much I don't know why this
> would be. Limitations of the driver ("radeon")?
>
> Parts of the old xorg.conf file follow. I'd like to get this set up
> properly, Thanks for any help.
>
> Oliver
>
> **********************************************************************
> # Monitor section
> # **********************************************************************
>
> # Any number of monitor sections may be present
>
> Section "Monitor"
>
> Identifier "Multiscan E540"
>
> # HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
> # HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
> # comma separated list of ranges of values.
> # NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
> # USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
>
> HorizSync 38-70
>
> # HorizSync 30-64 # multisync
> # HorizSync 31.5, 35.2 # multiple fixed sync frequencies
> # HorizSync 15-25, 30-50 # multiple ranges of sync frequencies
>
> # VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
> # VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
> # comma separated list of ranges of values.
> # NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
> # USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
>
> VertRefresh 48-120
>
> EndSection
>
>
> # **********************************************************************
> # Graphics device section
> # **********************************************************************
>
> # Any number of graphics device sections may be present
>
> # Standard VGA Device:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Standard VGA"
> VendorName "Unknown"
> BoardName "Unknown"
>
> # The chipset line is optional in most cases. It can be used to override
> # the driver's chipset detection, and should not normally be specified.
>
> # Chipset "generic"
>
> # The Driver line must be present. When using run-time loadable driver
> # modules, this line instructs the server to load the specified driver
> # module. Even when not using loadable driver modules, this line
> # indicates which driver should interpret the information in this section.
>
> Driver "vga"
> # The BusID line is used to specify which of possibly multiple devices
> # this section is intended for. When this line isn't present, a device
> # section can only match up with the primary video device. For PCI
> # devices a line like the following could be used. This line should not
> # normally be included unless there is more than one video device
> # intalled.
>
> # BusID "PCI:0:10:0"
>
> # VideoRam 256
>
> # Clocks 25.2 28.3
>
> EndSection
>
> # Device configured by xorgconfig:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Radeon 7500"
> Driver "radeon"
> #VideoRam 65536
> # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
> EndSection
>
>
> # **********************************************************************
> # Screen sections
> # **********************************************************************
>
> # Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
> # the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
> # may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
> # option.
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen 1"
> Device "Radeon 7500"
> Monitor "Multiscan E540"
> DefaultDepth 24
>
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 8
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
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