From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ecva3-0003ax-OO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:02:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAI20mWB026502; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 02:00:48 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.192]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAI1ujow001315 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 01:56:46 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i28so527767wra for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:56:45 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=BSBLEAPNSyzxzgdliy4uW9yIN0D5zJkzN/Mjn23poRE6OZH8klF1TmgImkflXmMoCBlblhj6YzKx+oyQpfec/3OT6DP/y86dzlP/3G+5Iu3H06lNaIZZMVC56I+RmAPs1LcHQLz+MkUEznN5xo1pQ8zYJjk4nUwhVsOKU+nTZag= Received: by 10.54.67.12 with SMTP id p12mr6848871wra; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:29:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.126.13 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:29:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7573e9640511171729i5965a970o8dee15f647c809c7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:29:04 -0700 From: Richard Fish Sender: richard.j.fish@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Radeon 9200/Xorg refresh rate In-Reply-To: <437D25A7.8040603@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <437d17ba.71b46ae1@vuk.kjorling.com> <5bdc1c8b0511171613g433e6b1bkfc42eb405b28325a@mail.gmail.com> <437D25A7.8040603@planet.nl> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jAI1ujow001315 X-Archives-Salt: 247af68f-1e8a-404b-ab12-2ef3f1de2634 X-Archives-Hash: 23750da22e58dcc51f20924cf80c3596 On 11/17/05, Holly Bostick wrote: > The point being, you need to know your monitor's specs. Back in the day, that was true. But with modern monitors (I'm not sure of the spec, I think is part of the VESA compliance requirements) the video driver can query the monitor for what refresh rates and modes supported by the monitor. This is what the "DDC" module in X is for, and why monitors no longer require 'drivers' (which was never a 'driver' anyway, just a .inf that told the video driver what the possible modes were). -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list