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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Magic /etc/XF* numbers
Date: 12 Jun 1995 12:49:56 +0200
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Eric van Bezooijen <ericvb@Sun.COM> wrote:
>I have a ATI pro turbo 2 Mb VRAM (mach64 chip) card, I've been mucking
>around with the /etc/XF86Config file. I got 1024x768 working, but I
>know my card can do lots of different resolutions. The graphics card
>manual only goes so far, and there are 6 "magic numbers" that I cannot
>figure out (this is from memory):
>
>HResolution: 1024 <number> <number> <number>
>VResolution: 768 <number> <number> <number>
>
>I know that the first set of numbers is resolution, but what do they
>other 6 signify ?
There used to be some readme file for it. You should consider looking
into this directory:
j@bonnie 299% ls /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc:
AccelCards README README.Video7 README.cirrus VideoModes.doc
COPYRIGHT README.Config README.W32 README.clkprog modeDB.txt
Devices README.FreeBSD README.WstDig README.trident
INSTALL README.P9000 README.agx README.tseng
Monitors README.S3 README.ati ServersOnly
There should also be a utility called `xf86config', at least, i can find
the source in the tree:
j@bonnie 302% ls /usr/src/XFree86/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf86config/
/usr/src/XFree86/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/xf86config:
Cards cards.c xf86conf.man
Imakefile cards.h xf86config.c
The next version of XFree86 is expected to provide a fine-tuning X
server extension to fiddle with the timing at run-time.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)