Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-12-01 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You very much for Your time and answer, Stephen: > Usually, in situations like this, the limiting factor is the maximum > pixel clock rate of the video card. Assuming a non-interlaced video > mode is being used, the general formulae which govern trade-offs are > as follows: Occasionally,

Re: Restarting X (was: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.)

2010-11-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 24 nov 10, 11:11:56, Camaleón wrote: > > So... there must be an "agnostic way" that works in almost any setup/ > configuration to tell the user to restart X (besides restarting :-P). AFAICT choosing to "exit"[1][2] from the graphical environment (WM/DE[3]) should work in any configuration

Restarting X (was: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.)

2010-11-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:07:37 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 24 nov 10, 10:24:30, Simon Hollenbach wrote: >> >> > After that, restart the X server (I never remember how does one >> > restarts X server in Debian, but jumping to tty, falling into "init >> > 1" and then running "startx" should

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 24 nov 10, 10:24:30, Simon Hollenbach wrote: > > > After that, restart the X server (I never remember how does one restarts > > X server in Debian, but jumping to tty, falling into "init 1" and then > > running "startx" should do the trick)... or reboot O:-) > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace Dependin

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-24 Thread Simon Hollenbach
> After that, restart the X server (I never remember how does one restarts > X server in Debian, but jumping to tty, falling into "init 1" and then > running "startx" should do the trick)... or reboot O:-) Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:59:32 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >> Have you tried with modeline+cvt? >> >> cvt 1024 768 85 > >> Will output the Modeline stanza to add to your "xorg.conf" file (IIRC, >> it goes under "Monitor" section). > > How to use it?

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-23 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > Have you tried with modeline+cvt? > > cvt 1024 768 85 > Will output the Modeline stanza to add to your "xorg.conf" file > (IIRC, it goes under "Monitor" section). How to use it? Can You bring post here an example? - After reading the manual it gav

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:14:45 -0500 (EST), Sthu Deus wrote: > > I can not set a desired V-frequency for a Samsung CRT monitor (an old > one). - As far as I understand from its own menu, it supports > resolution 800x...@85 Hz, then 1024x...@85 Hz and 1024x...@70 Hz. > > I specify in xorg.conf to us

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 23 nov 10, 00:14:45, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > I can not set a desired V-frequency for a Samsung CRT monitor (an old > one). - As far as I understand from its own menu, it supports > resolution 800x...@85 Hz, then 1024x...@85 Hz and 1024x...@70 Hz. How old? Since you mention a menu

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-22 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:14:45 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > I can not set a desired V-frequency for a Samsung CRT monitor (an old > one). - As far as I understand from its own menu, it supports resolution > 800x...@85 Hz, then 1024x...@85 Hz and 1024x...@70 Hz. > > I specify in xorg.conf to use: > >

Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-22 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I can not set a desired V-frequency for a Samsung CRT monitor (an old one). - As far as I understand from its own menu, it supports resolution 800x...@85 Hz, then 1024x...@85 Hz and 1024x...@70 Hz. I specify in xorg.conf to use: resolution 1024x768 VertRefresh 85.0 then X-server uses

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate

2002-02-16 Thread Patrick Kirk
thanks - I've got it working now. I must say setting up X is a bitch but given the immense range of video and sound kits out there, its probably hard to make it easier. Its puzzling that XF86Setup seems to disappear if you upgrade to sid but no doubt in due course I'll find out which particula

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate

2002-02-16 Thread ben
On Saturday 16 February 2002 03:33 am, Patrick Kirk wrote: > Progress: > Its a samsung lt133x2-122 and X sees it as having 4 MB RAM and a panel > clock of 65.14 MHz. > > startx flickers up a gray screen and then collapses complaining of no valid > mode at 800x600 and so on. > > Anyone know why ther

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate

2002-02-16 Thread Patrick Kirk
Xf86setup turned out to be the answer, though for some reasons /dev/ttyS0 wasn't listed as an available mouse device.

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate

2002-02-16 Thread Christian Schoenebeck
Am Samstag, 16. Februar 2002 10:07 schrieb Patrick Kirk: > > But it keep s saying there is no valid vertical refresh rate. I use > xserver-configure and it sets the vertical refresh rate to null for some > reason. > > Is there a conservative number I can manually enter in the XF86Config or is > th

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate

2002-02-16 Thread Patrick Kirk
Progress: Its a samsung lt133x2-122 and X sees it as having 4 MB RAM and a panel clock of 65.14 MHz. startx flickers up a gray screen and then collapses complaining of no valid mode at 800x600 and so on. Anyone know why there's no valid mode? P

Monitor vertical refresh rate

2002-02-16 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, Just installed Debain on my laptop. It went well until it came to configuring x. I have a Samsung VM6000 with an ATI Rage LT Pro PCI card and the monitor refresh rate is 60 Hertz under windows. I chose the Mach64 server. But it keep s saying there is no valid vertical refresh rate.