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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!hgatenl!tedux!clifton!baron
- From: baron@clifton.hobby.nl (Wim `Blue Baron' van Dorst)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Distribution: world
- Subject: Re: calculating resolutions for X
- References: <18e304INNs73@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Message-ID: <9209086064@clifton.hobby.nl>
- Organization: Minix Hobbynet Host
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 21:04:50 MDT
- Lines: 41
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- mal11@po.CWRU.Edu (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
- > According to the setting of the DIP switches on the
- > back of the SVGA card, the following refresh rates and resolutions
- > go together: 640x480 72Hz
- ^^^^
- >
- > detected clocks: 25.2 37.9 18.9 45.0 25.2 37.8 18.9 45.4
- > detected clocks: 25.2 37.9 18.9 45.0 25.2 37.8 18.9 45.3
- > detected clocks: 25.2 37.9 18.9 44.8 25.1 37.6 19.0 44.8
- > detected clocks: 25.2 37.9 18.9 45.0 25.2 37.8 18.9 45.0
- > detected clocks: 25.2 37.9 19.0 45.0 25.2 37.8 18.9 45.0
- ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^
- > However, according to vga.dbase......this card should have
- > some high clock timings..........
-
- I also noticed that clock.exe is very limited in the number of clock
- frequency it finds: Clock.exe found 4 freqencies out of 16. Luckily
- X is very intelligent and work out those clocks itself: Just comment (#)
- out the Clocks line in Xconfig and give X a try: startx 2> logfile.
- After rebooting (assuming that the Xconfig still is useless) you'll
- have in logfile a complete list of clocks.
-
- > (BTW, do I round these????? and why????)
-
- I did, but I don't know why. I recently read in c.o.l that the actual
- value you write in Xconfig is not important at all: it is the place
- in the list that counts.
-
- > In addition....I assumed that my card did have 65 as a clock timing and
- > when I followed the custom setup directions in video.tutorial and
- > came up with the same numbers as the example, they failed to work.
-
- Just a little bit off (video.tutorial is hardly explanatory, try to
- get XConfig.Notes instead) may lead to rubbish: I speak out of experience.
- Just keep trying.
-
- Met vriendelijke groeten, Wim `Blue Baron' van Dorst
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