Re: [SLUG] XFree86

From: Dylan William Hardison (dylanwh@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Mar 29 2004 - 22:30:41 EST


Spake Russell Hires on Monday, March 29, 2004 at 10:08PM -0500:
> Hey Guys...
>
> I've got one for you. My 17" monitor died, so I replaced it with an old Compaq
> 17" monitor. The particular model is 171FS. The funny thing is, it runs in
> Mac OS just fine at 1024x768 resolution, but not in Linux at the same
> resolution. I had to "dumb down" to 800x600 in Linux.
>
> Can anyone help me to figure out how to get a better resolution in Linux? I'm
> running Debian sarge at the moment...
>

Could it be that it uses different refresh rates?
try looking up it's hsync and vsync parameters, maybe?

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