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Date:      Tue, 23 Apr 2002 06:01:35 -0600
From:      "John Nielsen" <oniblerz@attbi.com>
To:        "Vladislav V. Zhuk" <admin@dru.dn.ua>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: screen refresh rate
Message-ID:  <031f01c1eabe$9dc984c0$0900a8c0@max>
References:  <20020423060700.GD8644@dru.dn.ua>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Vladislav V. Zhuk" <admin@dru.dn.ua>
To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:07 AM
Subject: screen refresh rate


> Hi!
>
> I'm work at the computer up to 12 hours per day. The refresh
> rate of textmodes in FreeBSD is too low (60-70 Hz). But i want
> to safe my eyes.
>
> How I can to raise refresh rate to (for example) 85-90 Hz
> on text modes (80x25, 80x30, 80x43, 80x50 and other) ??
>
> FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Tue Apr  9 16:24:26 EEST 2002

Vanilla FreeBSD does not offer this functionality.  I seem to recall seeing
a link to a patch that would do this a while back, but I can't find it now.
I did find a patch here,
 http://www.opennet.ru/base/patch/100x37-800x600-100Hz.txt.html
but I haven't tried it and can't vouch for its usability.  Be aware that if
your hardware doesn't support the new defaults set by this patch that your
system may become unusable even in single-user mode.

> PS: don't offer X.

Why not?  You seem to want to get more out of your video hardware, and in a
large number of cases X does that rather well.  Just a thought..

JN



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