The answer depends on several things. First of all, I would upgrade to
7.1, AND get the newest kernel build. I believe 7.1 has support for the
new XFree86 server v. 4.0+, while 7.0 does not, (I could be wrong about
this and would appreciate a correction) and the new server has
significantly upgraded the support for video. S3 has been one of the
last of the cards to get support, and the HOWTO pages at
http://linuxdoc.org can show you how to deal with it.
The important question, however, is does your monitor support the high
refresh rate of 85 Hz? How big is your screen? What color depth are
you running? All of these question bear upon what your refresh rate
will end up being. 85 Hz is the high end of refresh and is mostly
monitor dependent. Practically speaking, anything greater than 70 Hz is
very good indeed, and I would trade the difference for greater color
depth. Also, 4 MB of vram is pretty measely nowadays, and probably
can't support more than 8-bit color depth on a 17 inch monitor at a
refresh of 60 Hz, which is just at the bottom end of acceptable. One
seriously needs about 70 Hz to avoid eyestrain.
Please let us know how you have dealt with this issue, as it is
something that many people are interested in and needing to know.
surianto chen wrote:
>
> hello all,
>
> i'm a new user in linux and currently using mandrake
> 7.0. i'd like to ask about how to change my monitor
> refresh rate from 56 hz to 85 hz (vertical). because
> in my windows 98 (i use both windows and linux
> mandrake in the same computer) i can have a 85 hz
> refresh rate at 800x600 resolution, but in linux it is
> just 56 hz at 800x600 resolution.
> my vga card is s3 virge/gx2 with 4 mb memory.
> i have tried to configured it in xf86setup with the s3
> virge/gx2 card, and i chose generic supervga monitor
> also i have tried to choose svga server and s3v
> server.
> the result was i can use xwindows if i used svga
> server but with 56 hz refresh rate. if i used s3v
> server i couldn't use xwindows because there was an
> error so i couldn't have xwindows.
> also i've downloaded the latest s3v server rpm from
> redhat, but still couldn't work.
> and i tried to use xvidtune but also didn't work.
> what should i do? i really want to use linux much than
> windows, but also i don't want to have my eyes annoyed
> ;-)
>
> thanks for your help,
> surianto chen
>
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