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Date:      Thu, 3 Dec 98 08:50:26 +0100
From:      Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr
To:        kmarx@bigshed.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hamellr@dsinw.com, x@suse.de
Subject:   Re: viper330/hitachi751
Message-ID:  <H000057c01a9b9a3@MHS>
In-Reply-To: <3665B7A1.6116AA37@bigshed.com>

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Hello,

You could also consider going to the latest XFree86 3.3.3
I have an STB 128 (same Riva chipset) and the preformance increase is
there (it's better than 3.3.2.3 patched with sources from Nvidia)

	TfH

> rick hamell wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there some way I could either duplicate the NT settings and/or
> > > find a clock rate to use as an over-ride in the XF86Config file
> > > that would work better?  Not that I know what I'm talking about
here...
> > 
> >         Try changing the number of colors and the monitor screen
size. I
> > prefer to use the xsetup for that because frankly that other program
> > scares me. :) I think that NT dosen't have problems with it because
the
> > drivers you're using there were made by Diamond to fix this problem.
> > 
> >                                         Rick
> 
> Thanks Rick,
> 
> Another friend of mine suggested notching down the dot-clock/refresh
> rates (probably similar to what you're getting at).
> 
> I checked the 'settings' via NT and found that it's using
> a refresh of 75x60. So, back in XF86Config I commented out the
> more aggressive:
> 
> # 1600x1200 @ 70 Hz, 87.50 kHz hsync
> #Modeline "1600x1200"  189    1600 1664 1856 2160  1200 1201 1204 1250
-HSync
> -VSync
> 
> and instead used:
> 
> # 1600x1200 @ 60Hz, 75.00 kHz hsync
> Modeline "1600x1200"  162   1600 1664 1856 2160  1200 1201 1204 1250
+HSync
> +VSync
> 
> This helps considerably.
> 
> Thanks again for your time,
> k.
> -- 
> Ken Marx, kmarx@bigshed.com
> Ok, but listen. You can't make a ten pound cake with five pounds of
flour. We 
> really have to stay focused and productive and re-engineer the process
on the 
> methodology assets.
> 		- http://cgi.bigshed.com/~kmarx/cgi-bin/speak.cgi
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