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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:20:54
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0511171613g433e6b1bkfc42eb405b28325a@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate by Michael Kjorling
1 On 11/17/05, Michael Kjorling <michael@××××××××.com> wrote:
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5 > I have a ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card (lspci says ATI Technologies,
6 > device 5940, rev 01) which currently drives my monitor at 48.5 kHz 60
7 > Hz 1024x768 using x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 and the "radeon" driver.
8 > I would like to raise the refresh rate to 75 Hz. How do I do that?
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10 > Various Google searches have turned me up empty, except that possibly
11 > the answer lies in the ModeLine used. Is that correct and if so, what
12 > values would I need to tune to adjust the refresh rate?
13 >
14 > /etc/X11/xorg.conf says that the vertical refresh rate is "50-90" Hz.
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16 Generically modeline is the path to doing this. (I think...) I've done
17 similar things using this site:
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19 http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines
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21 Hope this helps,
22 Mark
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Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>