On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 10:52:49AM -0700, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
>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. 

It's supposed to be possible to modify existing modes and add new
modes with the XF86VidMode extension, although I have seen reports
of it not working and I don't know if it has been fixed.  The new
modes are supposed to be validated before being accepted.

David
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