Matthew,
this is the case of fatfingers and late hour. It is my
understanding that there is *no* US regulation prohibiting the use of 60Hz
refresh rate. On the other hand, it is *not* a good refresh rate for areas
with fluorescent lighting. running the thinknics at 800x600 takes care of
the flicker. julius
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, mslicker wrote:
>
> Is this an FCC thing? Do you have any links to U.S. regulations for this?
> Still, I imagine that the 60Hz refresh rate would not have any ill health
> effects on an LCD display...right? And it's not going to flicker for me
> regardless of lighting, right? I'll have one area that has two windows
> and another that's enclosed with only florescent lights.
>
> I've been behind in actually setting this all up, but I am still reading
> all these messages to keep aware... I'm getting anxious...
>
> --Matthew
>
>
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
>
> > Rocky,
> > right you are. i don't think it is ilegal in us to run display at
> > 60Hz, but it sure is a bad idea in offices without natural light. the
> > frequency coincides with the current and the flashing in the peripheral
> > vision is unbelievable, especially if you wear thick glasses.
> > what do you need to do to run the fontserver with your favorite
> > trutype fonts? julius
> >
> > On 31 Mar 2002, Rocky Hetherington wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 22:44, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
> > > > Ken,
> > > > the how-to is very nice, but it misses a few points.
> > > > Point number one and most important: the fonts on thinknics are
> > > > rather blurry unless run in the native Xvesa mode.
> > >
> > > The major problem with using Xvesa is that it will not go to a higher
> > > refresh than 60Hz. This makes it illegal for use in business or
> > > education settings (at least in the UK) as, last time i checked, the
> > > minimum under health and safety laws is 72Hz.
> > >
> > > Since my last post I've been playing, and have managed to get fonts
> > > looking OK on a Thinknic using Xfree86 4.1.0.
> > >
> > > Editing rc.local and adding "-dpi 100" to the XOPTS for
> > > XBINARY="XFree86" improves things a little, but the default fonts still
> > > aren't that good.
> > >
> > > Running a font server containing all my truetype fonts gives me great
> > > fonts. They're still a little blurry (is it a sis driver problem?) but
> > > on the whole it's a much nicer experience. And it runs at a less
> > > eye-straining 85Hz.
> > > --
> > > Rocky Hetherington
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> > >
> >
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