How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates?
Victor Engmark
victor.engmark at gmail.com
Thu May 3 08:24:28 UTC 2007
On 5/3/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, 1 May 2007 at 9:28:27 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote:
> > On 5/1/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> On Monday, 30 April 2007 at 11:02:54 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote:
> >> 1: Try XFree86. Maybe that will work better.
> >
> > I'm a bit reluctant to straying away from the recommended setup on my
> work
> > machine.
>
> Even if the recommended setup doesn't work? Note that we have both in
> the ports collection, so the definition of "recommended" sounds more
> like "default" to me.
It "works" in the sense that I get the correct dimensions, but I'm unsure as
to whether I risk frying the card or screen by using the current values, and
whether I can somehow establish which values would be optimal for my card
and screen.
> Besides, isn't the code base for this and X.org still very similar?
>
> Yes, but there have been many edge cases where one works and the other
> doesn't. In general, X.org brings better results, but it's worth a
> try.
Alright, thanks. I'll see about it.
Get hold of the latest Knoppix CD from http://www.knoppix.org/, burn
> it to CD, boot from it and see if that works. Knoppix is a Linux
> distribution that runs from CD, so it's good for this kind of test.
I still don't understand how it will provide the values I'm looking for.
I note that none of the other messages that have gone by in this
> thread have addressed what I consider to be the crucial point: you
> have a BIOS mapping issue. It would be interesting to know what
> version of FreeBSD you're running.
>
6.2-RELEASE.
--
Victor Engmark
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profound
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