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From: peter-c@home.com (C. Peter Constantinidis)
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Subject: Video refresh rates and video modes in vga0, vidcontrol
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 00:14:16 GMT
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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.


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