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Date:      Fri, 4 May 2007 08:15:49 +0200
From:      "Victor Engmark" <victor.engmark@gmail.com>
To:        "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates?
Message-ID:  <7d4f41f50705032315i19a306b0v309c8960c78742fc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCKEANCAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On 5/4/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Victor Engmark
> > It "works" in the sense that I get the correct dimensions,
>
> Then it is working.  Your done, quit diddling with it.
>
> > but
> > I'm unsure as
> > to whether I risk frying the card or screen
>
> You cannot fry either.  An LCD panel has a computer that will take a
> specified
> range of vert and horz sync frequencies.  As I already mentioned these
> sync
> frequencies are meaningless with an LCD, since the display chip merely
> converts
> them to what the LCDs in the panel actually need.  It is more expensive to
> make a display chip that takes extremely high frequencies and since they
> aren't needed for LCD that is why the display chips in the panels do not
> accept as high frequencies as a really high quality crt will.
>

Alright, I'll take your word for it. Thanks to everybody who contributed!

-- 
Victor Engmark
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds
profound



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