two questions

[Aryeh Friedman]

1) How do I determine what my current resolution and color depth are (i.e.
the ones that are actually be used right now)... gnome's screen resolution
tool crashs on me

2) I have installed the following configuration and the screen blanks for a
fraction of a second at arbitrary points (kind of like a "blink") how do I
go about debugging/fixing this

Hardware:

P-35 Intel based mother board
nVidia 8400 GS (256MB PCI-E)

Software:

FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Wed Sep 12 20:49:01 UTC 2007 (cvsup'e and integrated
about 8 hrs ago)
xorg-7.3 (using the posted port tree patch)
vesa driver (nv nor the nvidia's drivers work)

my xorg.conf (except for the default depth and modelines generated by X
-configure):

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/local/share/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF"
	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "GLcore"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "dri"
	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 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
	ModeLine "1680x1050"  147.14 1680 1784 1968 2256 1050 1051 1054 1087
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        Option     "ShadowFB"           	# [<bool>]
        Option     "DefaultRefresh"     	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ModeSetClearScreen" 	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "vesa"
	BusID       "ISA"
EndSection

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

Subsection "Display"
Depth       8
Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth       16
Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth       24
Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth       32
Modes "1680x1050" "1440x900" "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubsection
EndSection