On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:01, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Monday 26 June 2006 22:29, Nick Rout wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 21:17:12 +1200 > > > > Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:05:16 +1200 > > > > > > Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ah yes, some monitors just display "New Signal Frequency" or some such > unless the frequency is pretty precisely one of the 'standard' > frequencies. > > If it's so important to know exactly what the frequency is, one can't help > but wonder why Volker doesn't: > 1) Get a frequency meter from an establishment where he has friends who > play with sich toys, and just measure the frequencies of the synch > signals; > > 2) Decide what frequencies he wants and set the modeline in xorg.conf as > required. I'm sure he could do it either academically, i.e. with a pencil > and paper, or like the rest of us do using a mode-line calculator such > as:- http://amlc.berlios.de/ > > See also:- > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO/ > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-18.html
What about gtf? I have never used it myself or understand it's use, but from a cursory glance in seems to have some relevance. From the man page; "...Given the desired horizontal and vertical resolutions and refresh rate (in Hz), the parameters for a matching VESA GTF mode are printed out." Cheers Ross Drummond
