On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 11:30, Jack Coates wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 12:16, Richard Urwin wrote: > > On Monday 13 Oct 2003 5:21 pm, Larry Sword wrote: > > > HaywireMac wrote: > > > >On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:22:58 -0700 > > > > > > > >Jack Coates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered: > > > >>is there a pointy-clicky way to change monitor refresh rates? I'm not > > > >>in a big hurry to go messing with modlines. > > > > > > As a side note.In the Knoppix V3.3 within the KDE there is a Display > > > setting where you can set the monitor and the refresh rates. It's really > > > nice. sure wish Mandrake would include such. > > > > If Knoppix can do it, MDK should be able to. Maybe its an uninstalled KDE > > add-on. Unless it's a later version of KDE. Does someone want to go research > > it? At least three people have asked recently, and its dead easy with > > Windows, so its a big lossage for Linux. > > looks like it's some sort of wrapper around xrandr... using that utility > shows that both monitors are set at 85Hz, which ain't bad. So my crawly > dim lines are probably caused by interference since the monitors are > side by side. Maybe they need an AFDB :-) That would explain why there > wasn't a problem when one of the machines ran XP, since it probably had > a different refresh rate. > > BTW, there's a Modeline generator here: > http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl > which doesn't work for me, but might for someone.
check out where your cell phone is sitting. I'm serious here. They really muck with monitors. James
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