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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!agate!blanket.mitre.org!sed.psrw.com!psinntp !psinntp!psinntp!interramp.com!usenet From: dcmyers@access.digex.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: More on S3 video modes... (dot clock problem) Date: 4 Sep 1996 03:55:06 GMT Organization: PSINet Lines: 16 Sender: myers@freebsd.interramp.com (David C. Myers) Message-ID: <50iuiq$f6t@usenet4.interramp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.12.171.130 X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Thanks to many who gave me examples of 1152x864 (and higher) video timings for XF86. Now I'm running into a different problem: when I enable dot clocks over 80, the S3 server comes back saying the hardware can't go higher than that, and rejects the mode. But this can't be true: a dot clock of 80 gives a refresh rate of only 74Hz at 1024x768. My card's manual, however, says it will do 100Hz at that resolution. Why is XF86_S3 arbitrarily (and incorrectly!) limiting my hardware? (This is a Diamond Stealth 64 with 2 megs DRAM.) Thanks. -David.