Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-12-01 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You very much for Your time and answer, Stephen: > Usually, in situations like this, the limiting factor is the maximum > pixel clock rate of the video card. Assuming a non-interlaced video > mode is being used, the general formulae which govern trade-offs are > as follows: Occasionally,

Re: Restarting X (was: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.)

2010-11-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 24 nov 10, 11:11:56, Camaleón wrote: > > So... there must be an "agnostic way" that works in almost any setup/ > configuration to tell the user to restart X (besides restarting :-P). AFAICT choosing to "exit"[1][2] from the graphical environment (WM/DE[3]) should work in any configuration

Restarting X (was: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.)

2010-11-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:07:37 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 24 nov 10, 10:24:30, Simon Hollenbach wrote: >> >> > After that, restart the X server (I never remember how does one >> > restarts X server in Debian, but jumping to tty, falling into "init >> > 1" and then running "startx" should

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mi, 24 nov 10, 10:24:30, Simon Hollenbach wrote: > > > After that, restart the X server (I never remember how does one restarts > > X server in Debian, but jumping to tty, falling into "init 1" and then > > running "startx" should do the trick)... or reboot O:-) > Ctrl+Alt+Backspace Dependin

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-24 Thread Simon Hollenbach
> After that, restart the X server (I never remember how does one restarts > X server in Debian, but jumping to tty, falling into "init 1" and then > running "startx" should do the trick)... or reboot O:-) Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:59:32 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >> Have you tried with modeline+cvt? >> >> cvt 1024 768 85 > >> Will output the Modeline stanza to add to your "xorg.conf" file (IIRC, >> it goes under "Monitor" section). > > How to use it?

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-23 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > Have you tried with modeline+cvt? > > cvt 1024 768 85 > Will output the Modeline stanza to add to your "xorg.conf" file > (IIRC, it goes under "Monitor" section). How to use it? Can You bring post here an example? - After reading the manual it gav

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-22 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:14:45 -0500 (EST), Sthu Deus wrote: > > I can not set a desired V-frequency for a Samsung CRT monitor (an old > one). - As far as I understand from its own menu, it supports > resolution 800x...@85 Hz, then 1024x...@85 Hz and 1024x...@70 Hz. > > I specify in xorg.conf to us

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-22 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 23 nov 10, 00:14:45, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > I can not set a desired V-frequency for a Samsung CRT monitor (an old > one). - As far as I understand from its own menu, it supports > resolution 800x...@85 Hz, then 1024x...@85 Hz and 1024x...@70 Hz. How old? Since you mention a menu

Re: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-22 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:14:45 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > I can not set a desired V-frequency for a Samsung CRT monitor (an old > one). - As far as I understand from its own menu, it supports resolution > 800x...@85 Hz, then 1024x...@85 Hz and 1024x...@70 Hz. > > I specify in xorg.conf to use: > >

Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.

2010-11-22 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I can not set a desired V-frequency for a Samsung CRT monitor (an old one). - As far as I understand from its own menu, it supports resolution 800x...@85 Hz, then 1024x...@85 Hz and 1024x...@70 Hz. I specify in xorg.conf to use: resolution 1024x768 VertRefresh 85.0 then X-server uses