freebsd stable - Apr 2003 - X Server and LCD

HELO,

My old CRT is a bit broken so I decided to buy new screen. I d like to get
an LCD monitor. I also use FreeBSD , X ver.4.2 server and GNOME 2.2.
And now my question: Do I have to setup my X for that monitor, or maybe just
change name, vendor, refresh modes  in my XF86Config ?
I am not going to use DVI....


thanks for help


MArek

MArek wrote:
> HELO,
> 
> My old CRT is a bit broken so I decided to buy new screen. I d like to get
> an LCD monitor. I also use FreeBSD , X ver.4.2 server and GNOME 2.2.
> And now my question: Do I have to setup my X for that monitor, or maybe
just
> change name, vendor, refresh modes  in my XF86Config ?
> I am not going to use DVI....
MArek,

This may not be the optimal way of using your LCD, but it
works for me and I'm not at all an expert on this!

I have an LG Flatron L1810B. I also had no idea what to do
with the X configuration, but eventually I figured following
would do the trick:
  when running the Xfree86 configuration program, I
  choose ONLY the 1280x1024 mode (which is the resolution
  mode in the LCD manual).

  The Hor./Vert. sync values in my case are:
    HorizSync   30-80
    VertRefresh 56-85

Modelines are not explicitly defined in my configure file,
but are apparently automagically calculated by XFree according
to the "1280x1024" mode string.

If you wish, I can send you my XF86Config file.

Regards,
Rob.

"MArek" <marekd@enter.net.pl> writes:
> My old CRT is a bit broken so I decided to buy new screen. I d like to get
> an LCD monitor. I also use FreeBSD , X ver.4.2 server and GNOME 2.2.
> And now my question: Do I have to setup my X for that monitor, or maybe
just
> change name, vendor, refresh modes  in my XF86Config ?
> I am not going to use DVI....
Try 'X -configure' and look at the resulting /root/XF86Config.new.
Most monitors built in the last five years have the capability to
report brand & model info as well as device characteristics back to
the computer, and XFree86 4 uses this to compute optimal modelines for
the monitor.

One caveat is that when XFree86 selects the mode to use, it gives
resolution precedence over everything else - color depth, refresh rate
etc.  I generally solve that by adding a DefaultDepth line to the
Screen section to force it to pick a 16- or 24-bit mode, and a fake
VertRefresh line to the Monitor section to prevent it from selecting
modes with refresh rates below 75 Hz.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org