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[filip]

I am having trouble with refresh rates-i read that i xconf stores info...now i have mandrake 9.1-selected right monitor,card -even manually entered horizobntal an vertical ranges...nothing!hyundai f910 works 85 hz in any res, it is able to go to 120 hz in some but i cant use it-i tried this kind of xconfig or whatnot-the same! i also read about some scanlines-seems to be the problem i can fry my monitor-and overly complicated!Sorry, but in windows i just select rf rate and voila!even in beos you can do it-is it so hard for programmers to put a counter so i select it?Is this what i am looking for at all?Explain please!

Thanks

[e_dreamer]

The horizontal sync and the vertical refresh rate are usualy stored in /etc/X11/XF86Config (or wherever the XFree config file is)

Find the monitor section of the file (it looks a bit like this)

Section "Monitor"

    Identifier  "My Monitor"

# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

    HorizSync   31.5 - 50.0

#    HorizSync  30-64         # multisync
#    HorizSync  31.5, 35.2    # multiple fixed sync frequencies
#    HorizSync  15-25, 30-50  # multiple ranges of sync frequencies

# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY.  REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

    VertRefresh 40-90

EndSection

change the settings to math your monitor and voila, as they say