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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sgiblab!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!buckwild From: buckwild@u.washington.edu (Mark Tamola) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: My WD90C31 card is capable of 72 MHz dot clock, but only prints 65!! Date: 5 Apr 1994 04:53:32 GMT Organization: University of Washington, Seattle Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2nqqsc$h5k@news.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: stein.u.washington.edu I am setting up XFree86-2.0 for FreeBSD-1.0.2 and I am having some problems. I have a question regarding the dot clock readout for a WD90C31 graphics card using the command X -probeonly. The max dot clock I get is 65.00 MHz, when my manual says 72 MHz, and in even one instance, it says I can even set it to 87 MHz. With a dot clock readout of only 65 MHz, I can only get around 800x600 resolution when my card is clearly capable of 1024x768 (it has to be able to, 'cuz that's the res. I use to run windoze at). However, I tried to configure it to 1024x768 by manipulating the clock numbers in the Xconfig anyway, but to no avail. I know I can simulate this by using virtual mode, but sometimes it gets to be a pain having to move my screen around all the time, especially when some programs only run at resolutions bigger than 800x600. Any idea as to how I should go about getting 1024x768 resolution? It HAS to be able to!! Thanks for any help you can give me. Sincerely, ---> Mark Steven de Sagun Tamola ---> buckwild@u.washington.edu