From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 6 12:55: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.telecom.ksu.edu (gateway-1.telecom.ksu.edu [129.130.63.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896A537C43B for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:55:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beemern@telecom.ksu.edu) Received: from sioux.telecom.ksu.edu(129.130.60.32) by pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma012534; Thu, 6 Jul 00 14:54:35 -0500 Message-ID: <3964E3FA.27D3CB78@telecom.ksu.edu> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 14:54:34 -0500 From: beemern@telecom.ksu.edu X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Raymundo M. Vega" Cc: nathan , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: running X at high res References: <3964DAB0.DDC8D5BD@ksu.edu> <3964DEDB.E0CD403D@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Raymundo M. Vega" wrote: > > Have you tried: > > XF86Setup > that program is one of a couple that simply provide a gui interface to your XF86Config file it allows you to set the freq RANGES for your monitor... but that's only to determine if a requested video mode is safe to run on your monitor. it doesn't allow you to FORCE a vert refresh. i guess that's a function of the XFree server itself?? anyway.. it uses standard VESA descriptors for modes. and apparantly, 1600x1200 defaults to 65hz and a rather nasty shimmer. i've found nothing anywhere in the considerable FAQs, docs, man pages, etc that talk about vert refresh theres clocks, pixel rates, hsync, and whole slew of about every setting EXCEPT what i need. all i can figure is that X either CAN'T do it, or it derives it from some archane combination of the aforementioned settings. it takes about 4 secs to set the refresh in Windoze.. so i KNOW the hardware is capable To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message