Re: [TCLUG:14426] non-standard X resolutions

[Yaron <jethro@yaron.org>]

  Hi,

On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

>         anyone have experience with non-standard X resolutions? my video
> card will drive my ViewSonic PT810 monitor to 85Hz @ 1280x1024; but only
> 60Hz @ 1600x1200. the limitation is that the dotclock on the video board
> (Matrox Mystique 4MB; a couple years old) will only go up to 170Mhz.
>         I need to find a resolution that's somewhere between 1280x1024, and
> 1600x1200; that I can run at ~75Hz, using a maximum dotclock of 170.
>         someone at the TCLUG meeting saturday, mentioned running 1400x1050,
> at the meeting; but I never got to talk to them.

Try running kvideogen (http://without.netpedia.net/kvideogen/). Based on
your card/dotclock/whatever, it'll let you generate a lot of
non-standards. I counted 21 modes between 1280x1024 and 1600x1200. 

-Yaron

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