Re: XFree 3 config - Modelines - Optimum monitor performances

[Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>]

#include <hallo.h>
Patrick Mahoney wrote on Wed Nov 07, 2001 um 03:18:42AM:

> I went through several X config - Modelines reference documents. ( ex: http://www.de.daemonnews.org/199901/xpert.html ) They're asking for specs that my manufacturor doesn't even give me! (ex: horizontal sync pulse, front porch, etc... ).

If you have Woody:
 - $ apt-get install videogen
 - $ some_modes.sh
 - copy resulting Modeline lines from the output to your XF86Config file 
 
If you have Potato:
 - ask me for an backport

Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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