Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 00:14:16 GMT From: peter-c@home.com (C. Peter Constantinidis) To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Video refresh rates and video modes in vga0, vidcontrol Message-ID: <376f2f8e.14506753@mail>
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Hi, I'm not sure this is the right newsgroup to post this in so please forgive me. To summarize, I have sensitive eyes and easily see monitor flickering at the adapter defaults of 56 and 60 hz. To solve this I raise the refresh rate to about 85 hz or higher. The problem: The console in fbsd flickers noticably to me and I find it distracting. I realize I could run X, but there are times when X isn't always the solution. The discovery: Reading the man pages for vga, vidcontrol I see there is = no way to change the refresh rate. I also looked through the ports tree. No luck. I was told about an utility for Linux that does it, called SVGATextMode that increases the refresh rate, improves the look of the fonts, etc. and it seems rather nice though I have never run it. I can't compile it under FBSD, I don't know how. The current version is 1.9 and seems mature. Question: Is it hard to add refresh rate control to FBSD's vidcontrol or vga device? Or at least tweak the linux program so it works? Best, Peter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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