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From: jxh@plethora.cs.wustl.edu (James Hu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: XF86Config modeline wanted
Date: 04 Jun 1996 14:43:11 -0500
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis
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In-reply-to: searle@longacre.demon.co.uk's message of Wed, 29 May 1996
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>>>>> "searle" == Michael Searle <searle@longacre.demon.co.uk>
In article <nD5EF516D@longacre.demon.co.uk> searle writes:
searle> I am using a Miro Crystal 20SV graphics card (PCI, 2M, 135MHz)
searle> and a 64kHz monitor. I am running X successfully in 1024x768,
searle> 16 bit colour, but the Windows 3.1 driver gives me 1152x864x16
searle> bit so the hardware must be capable of this. Is there anyone
searle> with the same hardware who can give me a modeline to put in my
searle> XF86Config for this resolution? I know this isn't really a
searle> FreeBSD question, but I got no replies in an X newsgroup,
searle> probably because most X users weren't using PCs.
An excellent page to read while trying to construct your own modeline
is:
http://hawks.ha.md.us/hardware/monitors.html
You will need detailed information about your monitor, the
capabilities of your graphics card, paper and pencil, and a
calculator. After about 15 minutes of twiddling, a friend and I had
figured out how to drive a 21" fixed frequency monitor with my video
card.
-- James