From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 14:46:03 2004 Return-Path: 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 8AFE916A4CF for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:46:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from fep2.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DBD243D39 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:46:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bbobowski@cogeco.ca) Received: from [24.150.215.98] (d150-215-98.home.cgocable.net [24.150.215.98]) by fep2.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B314D3A50; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:46:02 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41AC873A.4000305@cogeco.ca> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:44:10 -0500 From: Brian Bobowski User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Thunderbird/0.7.1 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars Eighner References: <41AC3ADD.7020904@mail.ru> <20041130033104.O58624@goodwill.io.com> In-Reply-To: <20041130033104.O58624@goodwill.io.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Alexander Bubnov cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: three questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:46:03 -0000 Lars Eighner wrote: >> 3) I change resolution for consoles as vidcontrol -g 100x37 >> VESA_800x600 green. Can I change rate? How to do it? > > > I don't know what rate you mean. > Refresh rate is a common video parameter that I can think of, and often specified with resolution. Since vidcontrol refers to the console driver, however, it's probably not going to be terribly significant, console being mostly low-res text. If there is a way to specify refresh rate, I didn't find it in man vidcontrol. If the resolution/refresh under X is what you need to change, having the appropriate modelines in the X config file(if the defaults aren't suitable) will allow you to use CTRL-ALT-Keypad+ and -Keypad- to cycle through the available resolutions. As long as the "Section Monitor ... EndSection" segment of the file properly defines the HorizSync(usually in kHz) and VertRefresh(usu. Hz) parameters of the monitor, the default available modes are usually sufficient; having those settings in there will, I believe, prevent X from trying to use a refresh rate that is not within your monitor's capacity even if it's specified. -BB