On Monday 22 Sep 2003 2:28 pm, Lance Cummings wrote:
SNIP
>
> I do know this: What I'm getting right now at 1024x768 @ 24 bits in
> Linux is eating my eyes up, and there is absolutely no earthly reason
> for that to be happening.
>
> The monitor and card can do 100 Hz @ 32 bits @ 1024x768. This would
> be the preferred setting, although I'm sure as I said I can live with
> 24 bit depth. But I am going to get this refresh rate, and know I'm
> getting it, or I'm going to run away from Linux -- or at least
> Mandrake Linux.
>
> <rant>
>
> No guessing, no "system knows best"; this is for me to decide, and
> there should be a fairly easy way to set it, although I'll accept an
> arcane file edit. But it *will* be set to *my* specifications, or
> Mandrake Linux is rather a joke AFAIC. I strongly suspect that this
> is going to grate on some nerves here, and I'm sorry about that. But
> it's impossible to deny the fact that something very key is missing
> here. For me, this one is game, set, and match: Redmond wins. I'm
> probably not any happier about typing it than you folks here are
> about reading it. But it's a glaring, stupid, startling omission,
> one that has been solved in Windows a long long time ago.
>
> </rant>
>
> DJ> If you want to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 it has to be done as root.
> Easy way DJ> to do that is
> DJ> Menu>Applications>FileTools>FileManager(SuperUserMode)
> DJ> right click on the file and select Openwith>Kedit
>
> I really appreciate your help on this. But I don't want to do any
> editing that isn't going to result in 100 Hz refresh. I'm very sure
> I'm getting 72 as the default, maybe 76, but neither of these
> settings are tolerable for me -- 85, also a valid setting at that
> resolution and color depth, is the minimum I'll use. I paid a little
> extra money for the monitor and card specifically so I would not have
> to worry about this aspect of computing, and I'm not going to put up
> with sub par video performance by running an OS that isn't developed
> enough to let me control this setting precisely. (Sorry again, but a
> fact is a fact, and this is apparently a fact.)
>
> If you or someone else knows how to accomplish what I want, I'd
> really like to hear about it. But as I said in the other note, this
> is a show-stopper issue. I control the refresh rate on my monitor --
> within spec. Not Linus Torvolds, not Mandrake, not anyone else. Or
> I simply go right back to Windows, which gives me that authority. I
> find it hard to believe Linux users can't precisely set their own
> refresh rates, or apparently even know what they are. Isn't this
> kind of embarrassing to the community? Our eyes are the basic
> interface with the box. I will not use an OS that hasn't figured
> that much out.
>
> Lance
Hey calm down Lance. I was not saying you cannot control refresh rate in
Linux. Merely that it is not as simple as just selecting a drop down box like
in Windows. To get 32bit 1024x 768 resolution all you need do is add the
lines
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
to the 'Screen' section of the config file. Set the default color depth to 32
and you will get it by default.
Now as for explicitly setting refresh rates. That can be done as well using
'ModeLines' in the monitor section. There are a couple of examples in the
file.
Now I have never needed to configure a modeline before. I understand it can be
confusing. There is a guide which may help you here
http://www.knowplace.org/timings.html
Normally people criticise Linux because there is *too much* choice.
derek
BTW:The 'Reply To' is fine now
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