speaking of fiddling around with xfree

[dep]

i just went from the 1280x960 at 83Hz i've used for ages to 1600x1200 at 70Hz. 
no particular reason except i have lots of stuff to write and when i 
have lots of stuff to write it's sometimes (read: always) a little bit 
of a motivation to get to work if i change something -- keyboard, 
monitor, whole computer. i cannot afford a new computer, and i have one 
of the rare dinky ibm keyboards out with which i could not live; my 
next monitor will be lcd but not yet. so resolution was just about the 
only choice.

what is cool is that it makes antialiasing all the smoother; what is not 
is that it initially started at 60Hz, which is the headache from hell, 
so i've had to screw around with modelines for awhile now. it works 
nicely at 70Hz, but there is no way to shoehorn it to anything higher, 
though the monitor is supposedly rated for 80. what will be interesting 
to find out is whether i can get used to 70Hz, because the difference 
at the moment is apparent. (again, with a nice, enormous lcd this 
wouldn't matter, because the refresh times of lcds are such that unless 
the refresh rate were set insanely low it would not flicker at all 
anyway.)

which is apropos of nothing at all except that i did it and what's the 
point of doing it unless you tell somebody about it? (a question that 
has gotten many young gents in trouble, now that i think about it.)
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dep

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