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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar dot frequencies Date: 27 Oct 92 09:24:20 GMT Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 32 Message-ID: <veit.720177860@du9ds3> References: <1992Oct23.112529.29202@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de In <1992Oct23.112529.29202@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes: >I have observed that sometimes when I startx I get dotclocks xx xx 79 xx xx >ans sometimes I get xx xx 80 xx xx . I tried a configuration 1024x768 using >the 79 MHz dot clock but next time I started X I got 'clock not supported' >or something close. Then I changed that 79 to 80 in my Xconfig and it now >works for a while. Just write the configuration line twice in your config file, one with 79 and one with 80 MHz. The difference is caused by measuring inaccuracies. I suppose you have a board with a clock of 79.9 MHz or 80.1 or at least close in this range. [...] >-- >--Chris >Christoph P. U. Kukulies >kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de >*** Error code 1 > >Stop. Hope that helps Holger -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | Sorry, the above really good fortune has | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | been CENSORED because of obscenity"