On Nov 10, 2005, at 11:07 AM, Pat Maddox wrote:

On 11/10/05, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Nov 10, 2005, at 3:10 AM, Pat Maddox wrote:

I've got a dual display setup, and it had been working fine once I
finally got the config done.  They're two displays running off one
graphics card, one through the DVI output and one through the D-SUB.
Today I had to switch the inputs that the monitors use, and it just
doesn't work anymore.  I get a message on my left display that says
"Out of range."  This isn't an Xorg or FreeBSD error, it's a message
from the displays built-in HUD.  This doesn't make any sense because
as far as Xorg is concerned, there shouldn't be any difference.  The
D-SUB display should be on the left, and the DVI one should be on the right. I really don't understand what could be causing a problem, but for what it's worth, the display now connected to the D-SUB has always
been more finicky than my other display.  They're a ViewSonic vp201
(D-SUB) and Dell 2001fp (DVI).  Here's my config:


Section "ServerLayout"
      Identifier     "Dual Head"
      Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
      Screen      1  "Screen1" RightOf "Screen0"
      InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
      InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

      Option "Xinerama" "true"
      Option "Clone" "off"
EndSection

Section "Files"
      RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
      ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
      FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
      FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
      FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
      FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
      FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
      FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
      Load  "dbe"
      #Load  "dri"
      Load  "extmod"
      Load  "glx"
      Load  "record"
      Load  "xtrap"
      Load  "freetype"
      Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
      Identifier  "Keyboard0"
      Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
      Identifier  "Mouse0"
      Driver      "mouse"
      Option      "Protocol" "auto"
      Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
      Option      "ZAxisMapping"      "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
      Identifier      "Monitor0"
      VendorName      "Vendor Name"
      ModelName       "Model Name"
EndSection

Section "Device"
      Identifier "Card0"
      Driver "nvidia"
      VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
      BoardName "NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4600]"
      BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
      Screen 0
      Option "RenderAccel" "true"
      Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
      Identifier "Card1"
      Driver "nvidia"
      VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
      BoardName "NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4600]"
      BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
      Screen 1
      Option "RenderAccel" "true"
      Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
      Identifier "Screen0"
      Device     "Card0"
      Monitor    "Monitor0"
      DefaultDepth 24

      SubSection "Display"
              Viewport 0 0
              Depth     24
              Modes   "1600x1200"
      EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
      Identifier "Screen1"
      Device "Card1"
      Monitor "Monitor0"
      DefaultDepth 24

      SubSection "Display"
              Viewport 0 0
              Depth 24
      EndSubSection
EndSection

The issue is with your refresh rates on one of the monitors is out
of range. So what you need to do is go online, search for the maximum
resolution for your monitors, and match it with the maximum supported
resolution for your card along with the individual monitor's maximum
resolution.
-Garrett


Thanks for the reply.

I checked out what refresh rates they're using in Windows, and both
monitors are set to 60.  The finicky monitor apparently can run at 60,
70, or 72.

I set the VertRefresh to 60, start up Xorg, and now I'm not getting
the error, but it's really flickery.  Really, it's more like a bunch
of lines are scrolling down very quickly, it's not flicker, so
something definitely isn't right.  If I set the VertRefresh to a
range, like 60-72, I still get that Out of Range error.  I haven't
been able to find out exactly what refresh rates to use, because these
are LCDs and the refresh rates given in ms, not Hertz.  Not really
sure what that means.

Thanks for the reply, seems like I'm getting closer...I'd appreciate
any more help you can give me.

Pat

Pat,
That's not the actual refresh range for the monitor, it's just the currently used range. What you want to do is search for "{maker} {model} horizontal refresh" in google; the pages which come up are the ones you want to refer to for your xorg.conf configuration. Also, just as a sidenote, setting the refresh rate of the monitor to the highest possible range will help your eyes as they are accustomed to a higher refresh rate than 60 Hz
-Garrett
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