On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Miroslav Silovic wrote:

> While RandR probably has nothing to do with this (correct me if I'm 
> wrong here :) ), is it possible to dynamically change the monitor 
> refresh rates? Some people I'm working with consider this absolutely 
> essential (although the applications are exotic. Think PAL playback). Is 
> there already any tool that does this? Is there anything that needs to 
> be added to the X server to support this?

   You can have multiple modelines in the XF86Config and a client
can switch through them with the XF86VidMode extension.

> 
> I know that just dropping the proper set of modelines into XF86Config 
> would probably solve this, but this solution is far from user-friendly. 
> And it also leaves the problem of autogenerating these modelines from 
> some more general monitor profile.
> 

    All modelines need validation before the root window comes up
so they need to be in the XF86Config file from the start. 


                                Mark.
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