From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 22:18:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0B6137B401 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 22:18:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pdxpo.dsl-only.net (pdxpo.dsl-only.net [63.105.16.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF2643E13 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 22:18:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@wonko.com) Received: from wonko.com (unverified [63.105.27.131]) by pdxpo.dsl-only.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.6) with ESMTP id ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 22:12:31 -0700 Message-ID: <3D1E9498.9090307@wonko.com> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 22:18:16 -0700 From: Ryan Grove User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1a+) Gecko/20020626 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring my monitor under X-Server References: <005b01c21ff4$de79ca00$0301a8c0@sys.gtei.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG James wrote: > I've read most of the FreeBSD handbook and I'm finally out of school (I > graduated with a BS in Physics and Computer Science). I just finished > building a new (or mostly new) PC and I'm installing FreeBSD on it. > > I'm definately a newbie at this. I'm pretty paranoid, so when it tells me I > could damage my monitor when I configure it, I'd like a second opinion. > > My monitor is a Viewsonic G75f > http://www.viewsonic.com/products/crt_g75f.htm > > I'm not sure what listings are the horizontal sync and vertical refresh > rates. Could someone please help me? Looks like the horizontal is 30-86kHz and the vertical is 50-180Hz (this is from the "Input Signal: Frequency" field of the yellow table in the middle of the page). Don't worry too much about your monitor. Most good modern monitors can take refresh rates as high as X can dish out. I've never ruined any of mine. ;) -- Ryan Grove ryan@wonko.com http://wonko.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message