Re: Howto set my NEC LCD1850E to 60hz in XF86Config-4

[William Ballard <40414.nospam@comcast.net>]

The following two web pages seem to create the Modelines I want:

[1] http://www.dkfz-heidelberg.de/spec/linux/modeline/
[2] http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/calc.html

In particular, for 1280x1024@60, [1] generates:

# V-freq: 60.00 Hz  // h-freq: 63.73 KHz
Modeline "1280x1024" 109.62  1280 1336 1472 1720  1024 1024 1026 1062 

But I have two problems with this:

1) A lot of google stuff say modelines are obsolete in Modern XFree86 - 
it will just autoselect the mode your monitor supports.  Is there a 
better way to achieve 1280x1204@60?

2) I insert the modeline into the Monitor section:
Section "Monitor"
[snip]
    ModeLine "1280x1024" 109.62  1280 1336 1472 1720  1024 1024 1026 1062

and my only Display mode is 1280x1024, but still my monitor says it is 
running at 75hz vert..