Malcolm Kay wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:31 pm, Eric Murphy wrote:
Maybe some body can explain this alittle better then my google
searchs and other readings.
My question is this: Lets say your installing BSD on some
workstation, you dont know the hardware specs of the monitor
(Vertical and Horizontal rates ect..) and you need to
configure Xorg. Its my understanding that Xorg runs getconfig,
which determines the video card type and monitor type. Once it
has that information it applys the information gatherd to the
xorg config. Is that how it works? I was going to say, it cant
just test a bunch of differnt monitor rates that could cause
damage to the monitor.
Most modern monitors respond to Xorg's enquiry over an I2C bus
as to its capabilities.
If this doesn't work then maybe:
* The monitor is too old.
* The monitor doesn't subscribe to the 'standards'.
* Somehow the I2C bus is not working.
* The monitor manufacturer was overly optermistic when setting
up the information base for reporting over I2C
It is not a trial and error situation.
Malcolm
However today in one of our labs I installed bsd on a machine
and was unable to get xorg working properly becuase getconfig
wasnt issueing the correct H and V rates for the monitor, I
didnt know what to do without having to look it up. Anyway if
someone could explain this process I would be much obliged.
Thanks
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If thats the case, why did it work with linux running Xorg? So I guess
the main way to do it, if you want to figure out the values, is look at
the example xorg.conf and see what values it pulled?
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