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last on X for now



this begs a question... where you do you actually set the "Refresh Rate"?

in the xf86config file?


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Chuck Tewksbury
Director of MIS
Harborside Healthcare
ctewksbury at hbrside.com <mailto:ctewksbury at hbrside.com> 
(617) 646-5694
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Feldman [mailto:gaf at blu.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 1:21 PM
> To: 'discuss at blu.org'
> Subject: Re: last on X for now
> 
> 
> You need to look in the monitor specs for interlaced and 
> non-interlaced 
> modes. 
> 
> Just a couple of war stories:
> WS1:Years ago a client of mine had an Osborne with an 
> external monitor 
> which used to quiver and quake. Took aluminum foil and 
> shielded it, and 
> that worked. 
> 
> WS2: An engineer I used to work with at Digital used to have a modem 
> that would occasionally drop the connection. We traced it to a 
> refrigerator in an adjacent room. If he brought the system 
> upstairs it was 
> fine. Even when it was downstairs and plugged into a 
> different circuit he 
> had the problem. 
> 
> On 3 May 2000, at 11:20, Tewksbury, Chuck wrote:
> 
> > 4- text mode and 1024x768 mode in X still quiver
> 
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Associate Director
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
> http://www.blu.org
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