From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 20 16:36:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (apana.internode.on.net [150.101.94.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25BF437B71C for ; Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:36:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from PhD_1.testname.com.au (bra@dialup-4.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.133]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA29393 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:06:25 +1030 (CST) From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "questions" Subject: Is this X setting safe? Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:47:57 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29] Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032110482503.01910@PhD_1.testname.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have just installed a new monitor. According to an accompanying brochure, Its specs are: Horiz Frequency 30-72KHz Vert Frequency 50-120Hz Video bandwidth 110 MHz Maximum Resolution and refresh rates: 1280x1024 up to 60Hz 1024x768 up to 85Hz 800x600 up to 85Hz 640x480 up to 85Hz According to the manual supplied, the factory preset timings are: 1024x768 Vert Freq 85Hz Horis Freq 68.68KHz 800x600 Vert Freq 85Hz Horiz Freq 53.67KHz 640X480 Vert Freq 60Hz Horiz Freq 31.47KHz ============================= On this basis I have used this modeline in my XF86Config: # 1280x1024 @ 61 Hz, 64.2 kHz hsync Modeline "1280x1024" 110 1280 1328 1512 1712 1024 1025 1028 1054 The screen looks OK at 1280x1024 - but are the settings I have used "safe" for the monitor? -- Regards, Brian ******************************************************** Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow Flinders University Institute of International Education Bus 8201 3480 FAX 8449 9199 bastill@sa.apana.org.au ******************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message