re-probing DDC/EDID

[Robert Noland]

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 02:29 -0700, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> Adam K Kirchhoff <adamk at voicenet.com> wrote:
> 
> > 'xrandr -q' should definitey query your monitors and dump the new
> > information to /var/log/Xorg.0.log if you are using a driver that
> > supports xrandr 1.2.
> 
> That may be the problem:
> 
>   $ xrandr --version
>   Server reports RandR version 1.1
> 
> > If your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file shows that you are using the
> > radeon driver (do you have hundreds of lines starting with
> > "(II) RADEON"?)
> 
> I have one such line:
> 
>   (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI Radeon chipsets: ATI Radeon QD (AGP),
> 
> followed by about a hundred more listing additional ATI chipsets
> (but no more with the "(II) RADEON" prefix).
> 
> ...
> 
> > What version of Xorg do you have installed?
> 
>   $ Xorg -version
> 
>   X Window System Version 6.9.0
>   Release Date: 21 December 2005
>   X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9
>   Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.1 i386 [ELF] 
>   Current Operating System: FreeBSD fbsd61 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #30: Mon Jan  1 23:01:34 PST 2007     perryh at fbsd61:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/GENERIC i386
>   Build Date: 24 March 2006
>           Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
>           to make sure that you have the latest version.
>   Module Loader present

So Adam just pointed out that you are still running 6.9...  You really
should update your installed ports to something more recent.  I was
assuming that you were running relatively current ports.

robert.

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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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