what's happening with xorg?

2007-10-16 Thread Gary Kline
I'm in the middle of a portupgrade -aP, and saw that the newest mga driver is installed. So I did another X -configure, moved the file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and carefully tried out the new xf86-video-mga-1.9.100.. The screen is much brighter at the r

Re: what's happening with xorg?

2007-10-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:47:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > I'm in the middle of a portupgrade -aP, and saw that the newest > mga driver is installed. > So I did another X -configure, moved the file to > /etc/X11/xorg.conf and carefully tried out the new > xf86-video

Re: what's happening with xorg?

2007-10-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 04:22:58AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 03:47:22PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > I'm in the middle of a portupgrade -aP, and saw that the newest > > mga driver is installed. > > So I did another X -configure, moved the file to > > /etc/

Re: what's happening with xorg?

2007-10-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:46:27PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > You could try playing with the gamma value of the monitor. When X is > > running you can use xgamma to adjust the gamma setting. You can also set > > this with the Gamma entry in the Monitor section of xorg.conf. > > > Or shoul

Re: what's happening with xorg?

2007-10-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:18:53PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:46:27PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > You could try playing with the gamma value of the monitor. When X is > > > running you can use xgamma to adjust the gamma setting. You can also set > > > this with the G

Re: what's happening with xorg?

2007-10-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:36:09AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > The default setting for gamma is 1. Try e.g. 2. See also xorg.conf(5). > > I'll try your xgamma -gamma 2 suggestion, below. Thanks for the > data-point. I read [[ skimmed-thru ]] xorg.conf. This is another > man p