Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 22:54:04 -0400 From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> To: "C. Peter Constantinidis" <peter-c@home.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Video refresh rates and video modes in vga0, vidcontrol Message-ID: <376DA94C.88457FC5@glue.umd.edu> References: <376f2f8e.14506753@mail>
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"C. Peter Constantinidis" wrote: > > Hi, I'm not sure this is the right newsgroup to post this in so please > forgive me. > > To summarize, I have sensitive eyes and easily see monitor flickering at > the adapter defaults of 56 and 60 hz. To solve this I raise the refresh > rate to about 85 hz or higher. > > The problem: The console in fbsd flickers noticably to me and I find it > distracting. I realize I could run X, but there are times when X isn't > always the solution. > > The discovery: Reading the man pages for vga, vidcontrol I see there is no > way to change the refresh rate. I also looked through the ports tree. No > luck. I was told about an utility for Linux that does it, called > SVGATextMode that increases the refresh rate, improves the look of the > fonts, etc. and it seems rather nice though I have never run it. I can't > compile it under FBSD, I don't know how. The current version is 1.9 and > seems mature. > > Question: Is it hard to add refresh rate control to FBSD's vidcontrol or > vga device? Or at least tweak the linux program so it works? > > Best, > Peter. I'd be interested in this too. That screen flickering gives me terrible headaches. Brandon -- bfoz@glue.umd.edu "Lead, follow, or get run over" "In life there are those who steer, and those who push" "I'm not impatient, the world is too slow" "Life is short, so have fun, play hard, and leave a good looking corpse" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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