From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Dec 22 13:49:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C16A437B401 for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:49:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow053o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA02D43EDA for ; Sun, 22 Dec 2002 13:49:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jfm@blueyonder.co.uk) Received: from lexx ([62.31.198.203]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:49:40 +0000 From: John Murphy To: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Voodoo Graphics Cards Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 21:49:10 +0000 Organization: poor Reply-To: jfm@blueyonder.co.uk Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.9/32.560 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "clayton rollins" wrote: > As a side note, I have generally had no problems using "unsupported" = cards.=20 >More often the constraint has been from monitor frequency rates. (My = last=20 >one would only work in 320x200 mode with the proper vrefresh. However, I= =20 >knew windows had underclocked the monitor previously, so I didn't think = it=20 >was too dangerous to go 1 kHz out of spec. I guess I'll see, huh?) Um, you wouldn't want to be 1kHz out on vrefresh and I think even the = older VGA monitors would do 640x480. 60Hz vrefresh works for most (uk, not = sure if this applies i13y.), ~85Hz seems flicker free. Most modern 'digital' monitors would simply goto standby mode if an = attempt was made to drive it at refresh rates it couldn't accommodate. --=20 John. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message