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- From: haible@izfm386i.fertigungstechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Pascal Haible)
- Subject: Usage of clock.exe (was: Re: calculating resolutions for X)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.111937.7401@news.uni-stuttgart.de>
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- Organization: IZFM, University of Stuttgart, FRG
- References: <18e304INNs73@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <9209086064@clifton.hobby.nl>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 11:19:37 GMT
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- In article <9209086064@clifton.hobby.nl> baron@clifton.hobby.nl (Wim `Blue Baron' van Dorst) writes:
- >
- >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.
-
- If you have a ET4000 based card you have to type
- C:\TMP >clock ET4000
- not clock et4000
-
- >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.
- >
- Add a mode to the modes line that can't be resolved: X386 will die after
- printing the clocks and you won't have to reboot.
-
- Take these clocks, round them and put them in the clocks line.
- If you have a video card that supports 16 clocks (the second 8 being the
- double [or the half!!] of the first eight clocks), you might have problems
- returning to text mode (out of sync) if you booted with e.g. 100x40 mode.
- If this is true for your configuration and you can
- live without the second 8 clocks, remove them from the clocks line (leaving
- 8 clocks) and this problem should disappear.
-
- >> (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.
- >
-
- Pascal
-
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- (haible@izfm386i.fertigungstechnik.uni-stuttgart.de)
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