From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 20 8:34:40 2002 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 961E137B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:34:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from 66-214-248-56.gln-eres.charterpipeline.net (66-214-248-56.gln-eres.charterpipeline.net [66.214.248.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F3C3543EDA for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:34:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists-freebsd@silverwraith.com) Received: (qmail 20449 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Dec 2002 16:34:22 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 20 Dec 2002 16:34:22 -0000 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:34:22 -0800 (PST) From: Avleen Vig X-X-Sender: avleen@guava.silverwraith.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Changing console refresh rate Message-ID: <20021220082632.D216-100000@guava.silverwraith.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is getting quiet frustrating :-) I don't want to use X, because I like to use my lovely console :) Plus I'm only on a P233. I've compiled SC_PIXEL_MODE into my kernel, which means I can use vidcontrol to set the resolution to 800x600. Fantastic! Well, almost. When this happens, my video refresh rate drops to from 70Hz (at the default 640x400) to 60Hz. I've found a hack to vesa.c that switches the mode to 1024x768, grabs the refresh rate (100Hz) then switchs to 800x600 and applies it. This is a big messy, plus my monitor only just supports 100Hz. Does anyone know how I can set the *refresh rate* of the console, instead of having to live with the graphics card's default for that resolution? I'm sure it might be possible, I can't find anything about it though. Please help !! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message