----- Original Message ----- From: "Benjamin Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Greater NH Linux Users' Group" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 8:25 PM Subject: Re: Fun GNOME Eye candy..
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, at 7:49pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But then why does it care about your h/v sync rates? If it only needs to > > be concerned with the card, shouldn't the card worry about that stuff? > > The point was, XFree has to know how to tell the card how to operate in > the mode your monitor needs. XFree just talks to the card. The card drives > the monitor. If XFree is incapable of telling your card the right thing to > do, you are out-of-luck, even if the card can nominally support your > monitor. The only thing inputting your H/V sync rates do is allow the Xconfigurator program to enable the highest standard video mode that your monitor can support. I did this with my Viewsonic 21 with XFree 3.x.x when the Viewsonic 21 configuration file was hosed. I got to a higher resolution and higher vertical sync rate doing it this way. Rich Cloutier SYSTEM SUPPORT SERVICES President, C*O www.sysupport.com ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
