Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:05:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Dan Yergeau <yergeau@gloworm.Stanford.EDU> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: safety issues creating modelines for laptop displays Message-ID: <200010120005.e9C05Mh01301@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Oct 2000 16:45:11 PDT." <200010112345.QAA17684@gloworm.Stanford.EDU>
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> Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but I definitely don't want to fry
> the tft display by "overdriving" it.
You can't.
> I've got a Dell Inspiron 5000e, with the rather new "ATI Rage 128
> Mobility LF (AGP)" and a 1400x1050 display (Samsung LTN150P1-L01).
> I've managed to get X to work (use the r128 driver built from the
> current source code in the XFree86 project's cvs repository), but
> I'm concerned about the about the vertical refresh rates of the
> modelines that I've seen.
Don't bother. The driver talks to the LCD and sets the chip up
accordingly. Active-matrix displays don't have "vertical refresh" rates
per se, so just ignore it.
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