VESA modes

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Net Llama! wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Net Llama! wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Jorge Almeida wrote:
>>> There are other "1280x1024" that were not validated, which agrees with
>>> the monitor documentation. However, the two modes above have the same
>>> label "1280x1024". Near the end of the log file, there is the line:
>>> 	(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
>>> Now, what mode is this? (What refresh rate will be used? The KDE control
>>> center offers the two choices 75Hz and 60 Hz. What would be the
>>> lower-level way to choose?)
>>
>> That information appears further down in your X log, specifically where
>> the mode pool is listed.  Generally speaking for the nvidia X driver,
>> 1280x1024_60 gets you 1280x1024 at 60, and 1280x1024_75 gets you
>> 1280x1024 at 75.
>>
>>
> OK, but which one (1280x1024_60 or 1280x1024_75) is implied in the line
>       (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
> which is very near the end of the log file? I assume that this mode
> will be the one I get when I put
>      Modes       "1280x1024"
> in Subsection "Display" of Section "Screen" of xorg.conf. But I
> still can't see where is the information about the refresh rate to
> be used.

Please send me your X log.  I can't guess what you've got on your system.

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