video cards - resolution vs. frequency

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Rick Kelly wrote:

> It was easier in the old days, just doing the X config
file by hand.

You should be able to still do your manual configuration.

> Something is awfully broken with X or the the hardware.

Maybe you can report this to the Xorg list (especially since
your problems 
are on more than just NetBSD).

 Jeremy C. Reed

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On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 03:31:35PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed
wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Rick Kelly wrote:
> 
> > It was easier in the old days, just doing the X
config file by hand.
> 
> You should be able to still do your manual
configuration.

The real bummer with recent X is configuring resolutionrefresh_rate
The driver tends to pick the highest refresh rate the
monitor is
capabale of.  This is painful when you might use one of two
monitors,
and, say, one will do 1600x120085Hz, but the other one
1280x102460Hz.

(Or using ctl/alt/- to try to select between refresh rates
when you
switch between a CRT (85Hz) and an LCD (60Hz) at the same
resolution.

	David

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