How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates?

[Victor Engmark]

On 5/3/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday,  1 May 2007 at  9:28:27 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote:
> > On 5/1/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> On Monday, 30 April 2007 at 11:02:54 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote:
> >> 1: Try XFree86.  Maybe that will work better.
> >
> > I'm a bit reluctant to straying away from the recommended setup on my
> work
> > machine.
>
> Even if the recommended setup doesn't work?  Note that we have both in
> the ports collection, so the definition of "recommended" sounds more
> like "default" to me.


It "works" in the sense that I get the correct dimensions, but I'm unsure as
to whether I risk frying the card or screen by using the current values, and
whether I can somehow establish which values would be optimal for my card
and screen.

> Besides, isn't the code base for this and X.org still very similar?
>
> Yes, but there have been many edge cases where one works and the other
> doesn't.  In general, X.org brings better results, but it's worth a
> try.


Alright, thanks. I'll see about it.

Get hold of the latest Knoppix CD from http://www.knoppix.org/, burn
> it to CD, boot from it and see if that works.  Knoppix is a Linux
> distribution that runs from CD, so it's good for this kind of test.


I still don't understand how it will provide the values I'm looking for.

I note that none of the other messages that have gone by in this
> thread have addressed what I consider to be the crucial point: you
> have a BIOS mapping issue.  It would be interesting to know what
> version of FreeBSD you're running.
>

6.2-RELEASE.

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