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- From: rich@Rice.edu (& Murphey)
- Subject: Re: Xconfig modes for interlace monitor
- In-Reply-To: hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de's message of Sat, 9 Jan 93 18:39:34 GMT
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- Organization: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice
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- References: <C0ILDr.FtJ@shyguy.lonestar.org>
- <1993Jan9.183934.4723@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 05:20:11 GMT
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- >>>>> In article <1993Jan9.183934.4723@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>, hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Klaus Hartnegg) writes:
- Klaus> bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers) writes:
- >It looks like the video.tutorial document that's included with Linux's
- >X distribution might give me some insight, but I believe that most of the
- >discussion deals with a non-interlaced scenerio (I may be wrong on this).
-
- Klaus> Look for other docs. There are more than just the video tutorial.
- Klaus> One of the other ones is better. It's in a different directory,
- Klaus> sorry I forgot in which one. There was rumor that there is even
- Klaus> a spreadsheed somewhere to calculate the timing parameters.
- Klaus> Unfortunately I didn't see this mentioned in the docs (that I read).
-
-
- This isn't an answer to the original question but it bears mentioning:
-
- Given your clock frequency and horizontal frequency of your monitor,
- the program xclk (on agate.berkeley.edu in
- /pub/386BSD/0.1-ports/XFree86) can calculate a ModeDB line for you.
- Rich
-
- Klaus> The difference between interlaced and non interlaced is:
- Klaus> 1. with interlaced calculate with twice the horizontal frequency
- Klaus> (picture frequency). Make sure that this is not too high for your monitor!
- Klaus> 2. the last two of the eight timing parameters have to be ODD numbers.
- Klaus> (just increase them by one if they are not).
-
- Klaus> --
- Klaus> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Klaus> Klaus Hartnegg, Kleist-Str. 7, D-7835 Teningen, Germany
- Klaus> hartnegg@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de or hakl@ibm.ruf.uni-freiburg.de
- Klaus> Disclaimer: this text reflects MY opinion, not that of my employer!
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