Re: Monitor Refresh rate

[bob jones <bobj eskimo com>]

I'm no expert in this, but when I first started running UNIX on a PC I
had to do it, and it was a really interesting task.

I used a tutorial by Chin Fang, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to X386 Video
Timing". If you can find a copy of that I think it will fascinate you,
and it will enable you either to set up your own video timings (of which
the refresh rates are a critical issue) or to understand the timings set
up by a software package.

You can usually tweak the timings set up by software packages and get
somewhat improved monitor performance. You do have to be careful to stay
within the monitor's refresh rate capabilities to safeguard the monitor,
as I understand it. The "interlaced" option helps to do that, and in my
experience does not degrade resolution enough to notice.

Maybe this is all irrelevant now, but the /etc/XF86Config file looks
like the same principles still apply.

bob jones  (bobj eskimo com)

jojo wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>         How do I change my monitor refresh rates? i am running RH 6.0 with
> gnome.