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Re: how to show refresh rate of ttys?



On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:28:20AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> phyrster wrote:
> >Hi debianers,
> >
> >I applied vesafb-tng patch to kernel to get ttys show high refresh rate. I
> >have set the kernel parameters in menu.lst and now it seemed to have 
> >worked. 
> >However, is there any command to show the exact refresh rate of ttys? I 
> >want
> >to make sure it indeed worked. 
> >
> 
> With vesafb-tng installed, in my bootparms I have:
> 
> video=vesafb:ypan,1024x768-32@85
> 
> Per description in vesafb.txt in the kernel docs one uses fbset.
> 
> Fbset gives:
> 
> mode "1024x768-85"
>     # D: 94.500 MHz, H: 68.677 kHz, V: 84.997 Hz
>     geometry 1024 768 1024 1024 32
>     timings 10582 208 48 36 1 96 3
>     hsync high
>     vsync high
>     rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24
> endmode
> 
> The manpage gives no reference as to what # D means.
> I presume, perhaps wrong, that my refresh rate is 84.997 Hz.
> 
> H

I think, you presume correctly :)

The man fb.modes explains how to calculate the horizontal and vertical
refresh rates. I'm sure those values are calculated with those formulas.

In my monitor I have an On Screen Display which tells me the resolution
and the refresh rate :)

Simo
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