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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:13:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0511171613g433e6b1bkfc42eb405b28325a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437d17ba.71b46ae1@vuk.kjorling.com>

On 11/17/05, Michael Kjorling <michael@kjorling.com> wrote:
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> I have a ATI Radeon 9200 graphics card (lspci says ATI Technologies,
> device 5940, rev 01) which currently drives my monitor at 48.5 kHz 60
> Hz 1024x768 using x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r4 and the "radeon" driver.
> I would like to raise the refresh rate to 75 Hz. How do I do that?
>
> Various Google searches have turned me up empty, except that possibly
> the answer lies in the ModeLine used. Is that correct and if so, what
> values would I need to tune to adjust the refresh rate?
>
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf says that the vertical refresh rate is "50-90" Hz.

Generically modeline is the path to doing this. (I think...) I've done
similar things using this site:

http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines

Hope this helps,
Mark

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-18  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-17 23:52 [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate Michael Kjorling
2005-11-18  0:04 ` Richard Fish
2005-11-18  0:50   ` Michael Kjorling
2005-11-18  0:13 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2005-11-18  0:51   ` Holly Bostick
2005-11-18  1:29     ` Richard Fish
2005-11-18 10:31       ` Holly Bostick
2005-11-18 14:59         ` Richard Fish

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