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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!daily-planet.execpc.com!homer.alpha.net!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!Inter.NL.net!usenet From: C.deGroot@inter.NL.net (Cees de Groot) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,m,isc.forsale.bridges Subject: Re: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium) Followup-To: comp.os.linux.x Date: 2 Apr 1996 20:18:00 +0200 Organization: I still need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4jrr0o$793.C.deGroot@news.inter.NL.net> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <4jk13d$je5@imag.imag.fr> <4jmkam$j1g@hoopoe.psc.edu> <4jr0t4$hvv@bommel.sci.kun.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: ah99-16.arnhem.nl.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:14016 comp.os.linux.development.system:20509 comp.os.linux.x:28327 comp.os.linux.hardware:35184 comp.os.linux.setup:48617 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:412 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2944 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2710 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16493 In article <4jr0t4$hvv@bommel.sci.kun.nl>, Mark van Hoeij <hoeij@sci.kun.nl> wrote: >[...] Indeed it costs quite a bit of time to get it >perfectly configured, but then you can be sure that you get the highest >possible resolution/refresh-rate that your hardware can handle. This is >usually better than any automatic configuration tool can give you. > I doubt this. Going through the video modes document and doing calculations is nothing more than executing a simple algorithm, based on readily available data (read your monitor and card manuals), and should have been done as a program for XFree86 a _long_ time ago. Even a shell script with dialog and dc could do this... (and yes, I might one day sit down and do it myself :-)). -- Cees de Groot <C.deGroot@inter.NL.net> OpenLink Software, Inc.