From nobody Wed Jan 04 14:22:47 2023 X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4NnBf30RTvz2pLwq for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2023 14:23:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4f6000b6b5c9a.83c7361b016e8f1d0ee01c156ac46067@email-od.com) Received: from s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com (s1-b0c6.socketlabs.email-od.com [142.0.176.198]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4NnBf2588sz3rKS for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2023 14:23:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 4250.82.1d4f6000b6b5c9a.83c7361b016e8f1d0ee01c156ac46067@email-od.com) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=email-od.com;i=@email-od.com;s=dkim; c=relaxed/relaxed; q=dns/txt; t=1672842187; x=1675434187; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-type:mime-version:references:in-reply-to:message-id:subject:cc:to:from:date:x-thread-info:subject:to:from:cc:reply-to; bh=psDHLiHQv3sA6esQLHFjf07T3m5/RqGuVsfDolKku3o=; b=tJCqQVZZg2K5wBN/u9HgGxUip5MuebEz/oaGZQF5VCwaIZSDaEc7xwKD8rKreuRa9ZviF33tuxWwF53Ib6tVxIe/Fr+uoxcm0AQR1X0IGVhp3Eky26Qn5TwS348i7sU+Fd2u8iajyTf8ua7/giaIHnsJfFohTQq6XcpmHu0pvgc= X-Thread-Info: NDI1MC4xMi4xZDRmNjAwMGI2YjVjOWEuZnJlZWJzZC1xdWVzdGlvbnM9RnJlZUJTRC5vcmc= Received: from r1.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com (r1.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com [142.0.189.1]) by mxsg2.email-od.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Wed, 4 Jan 2023 09:22:56 -0500 Received: from smtp.lan.sohara.org (EMTPY [185.202.17.215]) by r1.us-east-2.aws.in.socketlabs.com with ESMTP(version=Tls12 cipher=Aes256 bits=256); Wed, 4 Jan 2023 09:22:49 -0500 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.lan.sohara.org) by smtp.lan.sohara.org with smtp (Exim 4.95 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1pD4fI-000NIf-C6; Wed, 04 Jan 2023 14:22:47 +0000 Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 14:22:47 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: David Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Screen recognition. Message-Id: <20230104142247.4f9d54d94be49368d7246e6d@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; amd64-portbld-freebsd13.0) X-Clacks-Overhead: "GNU Terry Pratchett" List-Id: User questions List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4NnBf2588sz3rKS X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:7381, ipnet:142.0.176.0/22, country:US] X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 18:03:04 +1000 David wrote: > Hullo, > > > Struggling a bit with my first FreeBSD install. > > Mouse and keyboard are detected without any trouble, but the monitor, a > Dahua LM24-S420, is not giving a lot of joy. This monitor usually works > at 1920x1080 @ 60Hz, but is not delivering anything like that now. > Current spec is 1024x768. > > xrandr states: > > xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default > Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480, current 1024 x 768, maximum 1024 x 768 This looks like your video card is being driven in VESA mode, you should probably (AMD or Intel video) install the drm-kmod package and set up the appropriate kld_list line in /etc/rc.conf (see the package message for details tl;dr one of "amdgpu", "i915kms" or "radeonkms" depending on chipset). It's been a while since I've had any nVidia hardware so I'll defer to others on that. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith