From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 17 12:25:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 840F237B719 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:25:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from juha@saarinen.org) Received: from dendennis.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.2] helo=DENDENNIS) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14eNGG-0004Gb-00; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 08:25:16 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" To: "Eric M Logan" , Subject: RE: refresh rates in FreeBSD 4.2 w/ xfree86 4.02 Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 08:28:24 +1200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <3AB3C25D.B048EC19@yahoo.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :: I'm sorry for this newbie question but can anyone tell me how to find :: out what refreshrate one is currently in and also how to go about :: changing it. I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.2 stable, xfree86 4.02, :: and Blackbox 0.61. Thanks. If you get an epileptic seizure by looking at your screen, chances are you're running in interlaced mode. No, seriously... the quick way is to press the settings (or equivalent) button of your monitor. Most modern displays have an info panel that'll tell you what resolution and refresh rate you're running at. XF86 also supports the DDC protocol, so if you look at the /var/log/XFree86.0.log file, and see a line similar to this: (--) NV(0): Virtual size is 1024x768 (pitch 1024) (**) NV(0): Default mode "1024x768": 78.8 MHz, 60.1 kHz, 75.1 Hz ^^^^^^^ refresh rate ... then you have it. (If you have a DDC monitor, that is.) You can change the refresh rate by editing the options under the monitor section in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file, or by re-running the xf86config program. -- Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message