From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 6 13: 8: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sdca.home.com [24.0.3.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A08137B61A for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:07:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from RaymundoVega@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.5.252.61]) by mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000706200756.CPCB17575.mail.rdc1.sdca.home.com@home.com>; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 13:07:56 -0700 Message-ID: <3964E71C.F3C64706@home.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 13:07:56 -0700 From: "Raymundo M. Vega" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: beemern@telecom.ksu.edu Cc: nathan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running X at high res References: <3964DAB0.DDC8D5BD@ksu.edu> <3964DEDB.E0CD403D@home.com> <3964E3FA.27D3CB78@telecom.ksu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG beemern@telecom.ksu.edu wrote: > > "Raymundo M. Vega" wrote: > > > > Have you tried: > > > > XF86Setup > > > > that program is one of a couple that simply provide a gui interface to > your XF86Config file > it allows you to set the freq RANGES for your monitor... but that's only > to determine if a requested > video mode is safe to run on your monitor. it doesn't allow you to > FORCE a vert refresh. > i guess that's a function of the XFree server itself?? > > anyway.. it uses standard VESA descriptors for modes. and apparantly, > 1600x1200 defaults to 65hz and a rather nasty shimmer. > i usually edit the XF86Config file by hand and set the parameter i need, everytime i have to do this i reread chapters 8 and 9 of Greg Lehey book. raymundo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message