Re: rule of thumb: how to calculate the Horiz- & VertRefreshRate

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:04:22 -0400, 
Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote in message 
<[🔎] 1064502262.2026.16.camel@king.gregfolkert.net>:

> On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 09:16, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > can anyone share the "secret" with me how to easily calculate the
> > Horiz- & VertRefreshRate required for a given Screen-Repeat-Rate at
> > a certain resolution with a certain color depth?
> > 
> 
> Info on it:
> http://www.knowplace.org/timings.html
> 
> Modeline Generator:
> http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl
> 
> 
> Hope this helps. BTW if you are using 4.2+ you really don't need to
> calculate them as X goes by the DDC(or DDE?) gotten from the Monitor.
> It just uses the highest one the monitor can display at that
> resolution.

..this can be overridden, but how?  My ATI card can do 230MHz, 
but X only allows 162MHz.

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