XFree86 vertical refresh rate.

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon May 17 11:59:45 PDT 2004


In a 1.0K blaze of typing glory, M.W. Chang wrote:
> >>I will download Fedora later. I just want to play around with RedHat. 
> >>Right now, I am still using the good old COL 3.1. :)
> >
> >Well, SCO will be after you for their license fees any day now.
> 
> When kernel 2.6 is officially released, I would abandone the COl 3.1 
> (unless I figure out how to upgrade from kernel 2.4 to 2.6 on COL 3.1).

2.6.0 twas officially released in mid-December. 2.6.3 came out over
the weekend, IIRC.

> BTW, I downloaded the firegl driver from www.ati.com (the one for Xfree 
> 4.2) and installed it with `rpm -i --force --nodeps`. The driver worked 
> after I commented out the "BusID" line in XF86Config-4 generated by its 
> fglrxconfig command. The fglrxconfig command is just an modified version 
> of xf86config, seasoned with many firegl questions. I am now using 100Hz 
> vertical refresh rate now.

Great! Glad you got it working.

Kurt
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