edid

What a nightmare, please help. I have an LG external display. If I use VGA cable with all pins, the display sends its ID to the laptop, all screen resolutions are detected. If I use another VGA cable I have that doesn't have the pins for that extra ID communication, the laptop sets some basic...

Hey all- I just installed FreeBSD on my home server. Everything works (even Wayland), except that I cannot get either Wayland or X11 to recognize my monitor's correct resolution. It's a 4k monitor, but both systems report its highest resolution as 1024x768. I also have a network KVM which can...

Hi all, I've just installed FreeBSD (+ X Window System & GNOME) on a HP Prodesk 400 G1. It's an old minipc connected to an external monitor (with 1920x1080 resolution) via a VGA-HDMI converter. The converter works only in one direction, from the pc to the monitor, so the X Server cannot read...

I am trying to find out how to read the EDID data of the monitors connected to the computers' video outputs. I'd rather prefer to dispatch the EDID stuff before starting X, thus I would like to avoid using xrandr to get this data. Afaik there are two ways to do this: either by using the real...

Hey Everybody, I am about to set up X in FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p5. X starts an runs (I am writing this from Opera in X), but whenever I quit X or when changing to another console, the display totally gets dark, no signal anymore. Then, after a while (maybe 3 minutes), signal comes back with...

Hello, I am trying to teach myself FreeBSD (release 7), and am having trouble configuring Xorg. I am running it as a guest under VMware Player on a Vista 64-bit host. My machine is a Toshiba M305D-S4830 laptop, which has a 14.1 inch display with a native resolution of 1280x800. The chipset...