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- From: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis)
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- Subject: Designing X modes
- Organization: FidoNet node 2:252/305 - The Purple Tentacle, Reading
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 22:15:45 +0000
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- Ok, I suspect there's enough interest in this... In a second I'll upload an
- archive called modegen.taz (compressed tar) to nic.funet.fi and
- tsx-11.mit.edu (if I can find the incoming directories :-) ).
-
- It contains my tools for calculating the magic numbers for X display modes
- - namely the sc spreadsheet program, a couple of spreadsheets and some light
- reading. The documentation assumes you have some idea of what goes in the
- Xconfig file but is otherwise fairly easy reading <G>.
-
- One spreadsheet is resolution-centric. That is, you specify the resolution
- you are aiming at and the clock to use it tells you how good (or bad) a
- refresh rate etc. you will get. This is most use if you have a multisync
- (multiscan/flexscan...) monitor.
-
- The other spreadsheet is frequency-centric. You give it the
- horizontal/vertical frequencies and clock to use and it gives you the
- displayable resolution. For those with fixed frequency monitors.
-
- Naturally, you can also play with sync timings etc. to centre the display
- and squeeze every last displayable pixel out of it. It's in the docs...
-
- And if you don't (yet) understand any of the above - follow the docs...
-
- Mike
-