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From: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt )
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NCR53c810 & Monitor Questions
Date: 1 Sep 1994 07:49:29 GMT
Organization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany
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In article <1994Aug17.135421.25277@cc.usu.edu> sl9xv@avon.declab.usu.edu (869483 Bennett Brendt) writes:
>Also, I would like to use my monitor in 1280 X 1024 reslolution and would
>like to know if anyone has recomendations on what to use so that it is
>TOTALLY FLICKER FREE!  I know that Idec has a reasonably priced 17 inch
>monitor that has a vertical scan rate of 80Hz.  I am also interested in
>15 inch monitors, although 17 would really be nice.  There are also some
>video adapters that output up to 120Hz vertical rate (like #9 GXE64 Pro)

I have this video card, and it works great under OS/2.   But you
should know that there currently is no X server for this card.  XFree
3.1 will support it, but it isn't out yet.  The standard VGA server
works in 640x480x16 mode, but you don't want to use that :-)


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