From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 21 14:37:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C327516A41F for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:37:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout7.cac.washington.edu (mxout7.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7143243D45 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:37:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout7.cac.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.05) with ESMTP id j7LEbo8G030753 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:37:51 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [140.142.179.57] (cs333-56.spmodem.washington.edu [140.142.179.57]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.4+UW05.04/8.13.4+UW05.07) with ESMTP id j7LEbl4k009658 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:37:49 -0700 Message-ID: <4308919B.1070307@u.washington.edu> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 07:37:15 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <42FCFDED.5050404@comcast.net> <20050815023141.GI61392@wantadilla.lemis.com> <43088094.40003@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <43088094.40003@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Monitor Tuning X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:37:51 -0000 Sean wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 12 August 2005 at 15:52:13 -0400, Sean wrote: >> >>> My display is not very sharp and I was looking for a few tips that >>> might >>> help to cure things. I tweeked a few things and no luck. Still a soft >>> dull image. Little annoying on the eyes. >>> >>> Is anyone running a NEC Multisync XV17+ with an Nvidia 6500 ultra and >>> getting a sharp display? >>> >>> Excerpts from my xorg.conf will give you my monitor and graphics card. >> >> >> >> Others have said this already, but to clarify: adjusting the monitor >> parameters may enable you to get higher resolution or less flicker, >> but they're unlikely to make it sharper unless they were previously >> out of the operating range. Nowadays that's seldom, since monitors >> will just refuse to operate out of spec. >> >> Your monitor may be old, but that doesn't mean in itself that it's >> worn out. I'm still using an Eizo (Nanao) monitor made in 1989. It's >> no longer the best, but it still works. >> >> Greg >> -- >> When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. >> If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original >> recipients. >> For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html >> See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > > > Thanks Greg > > I will play with settings further. > > Sean Speaking of Monitor tuning... I remembered about this website after I ran into it on a forum that I frequent.. this will help you setup your monitor resolution correctly and it improves the refresh rate actually quite a bit: . -Garrett