On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:20:33 +1200 Ross Drummond wrote: > 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
All in all the key to this seems to be: 1. xvidtune provides what Volker needs 2. xvidtune is broken, either in the version of xorg that Volker is using or in SuSE's implementation of it. As Volker suggested earlier in the thead "Potential cuplrits include installing the nvidia driver, xorg changing to 6.9, kernel, gcc 4.1, ..." 3. in the absense of anyone so far having been able to find an alternative to xvidtune someone should fix xvidtune either in SuSE or upstream (as determined by where the fault lies). 4. I don't have the need or inclination to follow up with errors in SuSE or xorg. I suspect that xvidtune is little used these days due to probing and recognition of both video cards and monitors having improved so much (at least with newish video cards and monitors). ie people are less inclined to fix any xvidtune problem when most stuff "just works" and there is kitchensinkware to write and maintain. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
