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Bug#261620: Radeon: ForceMinDotClock has no effect.



Your getting on the right page.  However the manpage should also indicate
that any suffix for dotclock will result in an "echo (EE) $msg; exit;". 
This is preventing me from knowing what the unit is, since it can't be
changed.

--- Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:53:27AM -0700, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> > > You confused me in that message.  You said you had to add "M" to the
> > > option value to get XFree86 to interpret the value as being in
> *hertz*?
> > > 
> > > That seems pretty counter-intuitive to me.  According to radeon(4x),
> > > specifying "M" would mean "megahertz".
> > 
> > That's right in *hertz* to mean "megahertz".  I.E DotClock 21.96 VS
> > DotClock 21.96M, for all I know it's DotClock 21.96K!!  That's what
> I'm
> > saying that it's not documented what 21.96, from my mode section,
> means.
> 
> You are still confusing me.
> 
> Are you simply saying that the manpage should document what units are
> used
> if no suffix at all is provided?
> 
> -- 
> G. Branden Robinson                |    I must confess to being
> surprised
> Debian GNU/Linux                   |    by the magnitude of
> incompatibility
> branden@debian.org                 |    with such a minor version bump.
> http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    -- Manoj Srivastava
> 

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