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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!atlas.onthe.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.walltech.com!news.aimnet.com!news.ossi.com!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!news.imag.fr!knaff From: knaff@hal.imag.fr (Alain Knaff) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,m,isc.forsale.bridges Subject: Re: Sometimes you need X server source (Was: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium) Date: 30 Mar 1996 19:12:45 GMT Organization: IMAG, Grenoble, France Lines: 37 Message-ID: <4jk13d$je5@imag.imag.fr> References: <4j21ph$crr@slappy.cs.utexas.edu> <m2ag0zobj8.fsf@krehbiel.mnsinc.com> <4jjb6j$ef2@hoopoe.psc.edu> <4jjk9o$lah@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <4jjsgr$f3r@hoopoe.psc.edu> Reply-To: Alain.Knaff@imag.fr NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp2.imag.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.7.1 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.apps:13892 comp.os.linux.development.system:20333 comp.os.linux.x:28083 comp.os.linux.hardware:34919 comp.os.linux.setup:48118 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:377 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2889 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2661 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16328 In <4jjsgr$f3r@hoopoe.psc.edu>, Peter Berger <peterb@hoopoe.psc.edu> wrote: :The only timing I've ever had to examine for any monitor with Xinside is :the maximum vertical bandwidth (sic), as expressed in Hz. Then, just :choose "Multisync XXhz", where XX is as close as possible to the maximum :vertical hz of your monitor (which should be clearly stated on the spec :sheet). What about the maximum horizontal bandwidth, expressed in kHz? What about the maximum pixel bandwidth, expressed in Mhz? Or does Xinside just "guess" these parameters. What if it guesses to high, and you get unstable or blurred pictures? And what if it guesses to low, and has to use the same low refresh rate (can you say "migraine") that it would use for a monitor that would only support these low bandwidth? You paid real money for your high quality monitor, and now this server is not using its features? : :I suppose it might not be that easy with a non-multisync monitor, but :how many of those are on the market nowadays? Even multisync monitors have their limits, which shouldn't be exceeded. The only solution is "to play it safe", and use very conservative values for the missing parameters. Unfortunately, this has the side effect that you get the same lousy refresh rates that you would get for the most crappy monitor on the market... : : :-- :Pete Berger :Coordinator, Regional Information Infrastructure :Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Alain