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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
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Message-ID: <veit.720177860@du9ds3>
References: <1992Oct23.112529.29202@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
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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

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