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From: rich@Rice.edu (Richard Murphey)
Subject: Re: How to select 72MHz on ET4000 board?
In-Reply-To: becker@super.org's message of Thu, 4 Mar 1993 17:10:02 GMT
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Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 06:00:22 GMT
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In article <1993Mar4.171002.5808@super.org> becker@super.org (Donald J. Becker) writes:
[...]
   Xfree86 doesn't usually detect the correct clocks in my ET4000.  It
   has some clocks that are far abover the 65Mhz-nominal-max rating of
   the ET4000, but it Xfree often screws up the lower-rate clocks as
   well.  You can either
[...]

The clock detection code in XFree86 version 1.2 is much improved.
Although running it on an idle system will help, you should see much
less variance in the measured clock -- on the order of .1Mhz.  Rich