[TriLUG] Red Hat 9 and Samsung Monitor

[Roy Vestal]

Have you tried changing:

"VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0"

to "VertRefresh 100"?

On Fri, 2 May 2003 19:08:59 -0400
Mike <myname17 at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> It says:
> [root at TUX X11]# /usr/sbin/ddcprobe
> 
> Videocard DDC probe results
> Description:  NVidia Corporation Riva TNT
> Memory (MB):  16
> 
> Monitor DDC probe results
> ID: SAM413b
> Name: S/M 955DF
> Horizontal Sync (kHZ): 30-85
> Vertical Sync (HZ)  : 50-160
> Width (mm): 360
> Height(mm): 270
> [root at TUX X11]#
> 
> Which matches well with the config file.
> 
> # XFree86 4 configuration created by redhat-config-xfree86
> 
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier     "Default Layout"
>         Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
>         InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
>         InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
>         InputDevice    "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore"
> EndSection
> 
> # Portion removed to save space...
> 
> Section "Monitor"
>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>         ModelName    "S/M 955DF"
>         DisplaySize  360        270
>         HorizSync    30.0 - 85.0
>         VertRefresh  50.0 - 160.0
>         Option      "dpms"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "Videocard0"
>         Driver      "nv"
>         VendorName  "Videocard vendor"
>         BoardName   "RIVA TNT2"
> EndSection
> 
> Section "Screen"
>         Identifier "Screen0"
>         Device     "Videocard0"
>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>         DefaultDepth     16
>         SubSection "Display"
>                 Depth     16
>                 Modes    "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Friday 02 May 2003 17:58, Brent Fox wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 22:04, Mike wrote:
> > > I need to know how to adjust the vertical refresh rate in RH9 (or buy a
> > > new monitor which I can't afford).  The problem is that it has this
> > > really annoying whine at 68k (which is the Red Hat/X windows default) but
> > > not at 100k which the hardware will support.  Some details:
> > >
> > > Red Hat 9
> > > Samsung SyncMaster 955df
> > > Nvidia TNT2 Vanta LT 16MB AGP
> > > 1024x768 16 bit color
> >
> > Hmmm, I don't see the SyncMaster 955df in /usr/share/hwdata/MonitorsDB.
> > Maybe it needs to be added.
> >
> > Log in as root and run '/usr/sbin/ddcprobe'.  What does the output of
> > that say?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >    Brent
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