Re: ModeLines

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On Monday 29 December 2003 07:23 pm, Hank Barta wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 17:24, Dennis Veatch wrote:
> > On Monday 29 December 2003 05:18 pm, Hank Barta wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 13:13, Sean wrote:
> > > > Looking for ModeLines for Samsung SyncMaster 192N.
> > >
> > > Have you tried http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl ?
> > >
> > > But be aware that newer servers (at least 4.3.0 from my experience)
> > > will calculate their own mode lines and discard any that they don't
> > > think the hardware is capable of (even if you know better.)
> >
> > If that's the case, how do you over ride what X thinks?
>
> I don't know. I cannot run my display at 1600x1200 at a flicker free
> refresh because X probes the dot clock at 170 MHz when in fact my card
> has a 220 MHz dot clock. (S3 968 on a Number 9 Motion 771.) With the
> older server (3.6.0) I could do this by specifying "DacSpeed 220" in the
> Devices section of the XF86Config and providing appropriate mode lines.
> That does not work for 4.3.0. Instead the newer server reports that the
> mode line conflicts with the dot clock. (Not the exact wording of the
> message in the log, but I think that's what it means.)
>
> Sorry I could not provide more help.
>

That's fine. I was just wondering in case that issue popped up in my world :)

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