Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> I think I must have been missing something about the color depth. I
> thought with 4MB video memory you could run 1280x1024x24, albeit at 60 Hz.
> Mayby this is why my highest resolution mode looks so bad, with blurred
> screen and window edges and slanted text.
Blurring is more likely to be caused by a low monitor bandwidth. My
Viewsonic 15GA has a reasonable bandwidth of 86MHz, and my current
1152x864 at 16bpp gives quite sharp output. 1280x1024 at 8 bpp was a
little blurred.
(After getting my new M/B and video card, my old, cheap monitor
actually got sharper.)
> I understoon that the color depth didn't have anything to do with the
> refresh rate. Perhaps I understood wrongly?
The video card can only push data through at a certain speed limited
by the RAMDAC. I see from my X startup that at 16 bpp, this is 95
MHz. This places a limit on the combination of resolution, refresh
rate and colours. The 2400 may be better than the 2000.
See /usr/doc/X11/VideoModes.doc for a complete discussion / tutorial.
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