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From: kem@prl.ufl.edu (Kelly Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: XFree86, ATI Ultra Pro and ViewSonic 21
Date: 19 Jan 1994 21:46:49 GMT
Organization: University of Florida Parallel Reasearch Lab.
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In article <1994Jan18.234346.4234@cs.cornell.edu>, cchase@cs.cornell.edu (Craig Chase) writes:
|> Hello all.
|> 
|> I have a 486 (running NetBSD 0.9) with XFree86-2.0 running.  I have a 
|> ATI Ultra Pro VLB card with 2Meg of VRAM, and a ViewSonic 21 monitor
|> (lucky me!)
|> 
|> Anyway, I got all this stuff so that I could run X in 1280x1024 at 74 HZ
|> but I'm having trouble getting this to work (it seems to work fine under
|> Microsoft Windows by the way).
|> 
|> Does anyone have this configuration, or any other configuration with 
|> the ATI Ultra Pro running at 1280x1024?  When I try and run the dot
|> clock at 110 or 135 Mhz, I get an error message back that says
|> "Maximum dot clock is 80 Mhz".  What is this silliness from?
|> Did I not set the EEPROM correctly on the video card?
|> 
|> Thanks!
|> Craig

This is a current limitation in XFree86-2.0.
There's nothing you can do but wait until XFree86-2.1 is released,
which will support clocks higher than 80Mhz.

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