How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates?

[Victor Engmark]

On 5/4/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Victor Engmark
> > It "works" in the sense that I get the correct dimensions,
>
> Then it is working.  Your done, quit diddling with it.
>
> > but
> > I'm unsure as
> > to whether I risk frying the card or screen
>
> You cannot fry either.  An LCD panel has a computer that will take a
> specified
> range of vert and horz sync frequencies.  As I already mentioned these
> sync
> frequencies are meaningless with an LCD, since the display chip merely
> converts
> them to what the LCDs in the panel actually need.  It is more expensive to
> make a display chip that takes extremely high frequencies and since they
> aren't needed for LCD that is why the display chips in the panels do not
> accept as high frequencies as a really high quality crt will.
>

Alright, I'll take your word for it. Thanks to everybody who contributed!

-- 
Victor Engmark
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur - What is said in Latin, sounds
profound