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From: nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
Subject: Re: 1152 x 864 mode for S3 X-server?
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[note followups. This is not a FreeBSD specific issue]

dcmyers@access.digex.net writes:

>Has anyone run an S3-based video board at 1152x864 @ 70Hz?  If so,
>can you send/post your /etc/XF86Config file?  I'd like to see the
>mode timing numbers.  The xf86config program does not allow you
>to enter anything other than the standard VESA modes of 1024x768
>and 1280x1024.

ModeLine "1152x900"    110 1152 1184 1312 1504  900  902  904  935

That's actually 78 Hz. You probably could just use 98 MHz as a dot clock
instead of 110 if it absolutely _has_ to be 70 Hz.

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