> Hi, I've just installed on a new machine with a Voodoo5 setup. When I > run Xfree86 -configure, it does it thing. > > All I get out of the config is 60khz refresh and I cannot figure out > how to get it to something more resonable like 85khz
1. make sure your monitor's vsync and hsync ranges are correct. try doing a google search for the model of your monitor, and see what ranges someone else posted. or possibly the manufacturer has that information. 2. you can try looking at the output of 'startx', and tweaking modelines based on that. there's a number of web-based modeline generators out there (don't have the bookmarks on hand, sorry), and those will let you play with different values, to see what refresh rates you get. if you have a recent monitor, don't worry too much about blowing it up; they generally don't do that anymore. ;) 'clock range' is an important value... it's the limit of how fast your video card can send data to the monitor. at the other end of the video cable, there's a value called 'bandwidth'; which is analogous to the video card's clock range. it defines how much data the monitor can recieve. unfortunately, this doesn't appear in the output of the X server, and manufacturers are rather unhelpful. :( I think I've posted a couple other things to this list in the past, about how to tweak modelines. maybe one day, when I'm more awake than I am right now, I'll put them together in a coherent fashion. :) ESR has put together a pretty decent document at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO//XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO/ which explains things a lot better than I can. :) in a related matter all X newbies should read: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO/ which covers about half of the simple questions asked on this list. :) Carl Soderstrom. -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700 _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
