On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, [iso-8859-1] Cláudio E. Elicker wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 July 2005 18:46, Paolo Pantaleo wrote:
> > [I hope it is not too off topic]
> > I found a nice HOWTO here
> > http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO/index.html
and i wonder how many people smoke'd their crt ... i have 2 of um :-)
ie.. know what the modeline numbers mean when you change it
or even if you do know what it means, are you willing to risk
letting the blue smoke come out and the silly thing goes to
la-la land and doesnt come back ( work again )
normally, with today's X11 server
X -configure will generate what you need
X is usually a symlink to XFree86 or Xorg or ??
if you like 1024x768 or 1280x1024, you might need to
add that to the:
Section "Screen"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
EndSubsection
EndSection
-- the "Modes" line is usually missing in the stanza and not the
nitty-gritty gory numbers to define the timing defintions
of the 1280x1024
the nitty gritty numbers are predefined in XFree86 or Xorg
or whatever X11 driver you're using
-- if you can see flicker on your screen, try turning off the
florescent light, just to test that the screen doesnt flicker
without florescent lights
- if you can still see flicker, you will need to know
all the gory details of the ModeLine definitions for
your svga chipset and monitor manufacturer and model#
c ya
alvin
> > that explains in deep how to set ModeLine entries for XF86Config. It
> > talks about two automatic ModeLine generation tools:
> >
> > KVideoGen - http://paranoia.rulez.org/videogen/
> > [a CGI script] - http://zaph.com/Modeline
> >
> > None of these links seems to work, could it be for copyright problems?
> >
> > Thnx PAolo
>
> Videogen is in Sarge: http://packages.debian.org/stable/x11/videogen
> Just do a simple
> aptitude install videogen
>
