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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!nctuccca.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!mcsun!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!longacre.demon.co.uk From: searle@longacre.demon.co.uk (Michael Searle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: More on S3 video modes... (dot clock problem) Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 11:41:03 BST Lines: 16 Message-ID: <n0851A49D@longacre.demon.co.uk> References: <50iuiq$f6t@usenet4.interramp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: longacre.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: longacre.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Offlite 0.09 / Termite Internet for Acorn RISC OS dcmyers@access.digex.net wrote: > 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.) Can your monitor use higher dot clocks? -- Michael Searle - searle@longacre.demon.co.uk