Need Help Increasing Veretical Frequency

[ironhorse99]

I just setup my Nvidia 6200 Geforce & all went well however I replaced an older acer monitor with a pro-view 19" unit I bought years ago & never used. The nvidia card doesn't recognize the monitor so all I have is 60hz in the vertical which bothers my eyes. The driver is 180.44 & a newer one is available though it won't run in terminal. The monitor is more than capable of delivering a higher frequency. Can anyone give me the detailed info on how to change this in terminal. I'm not very savvy when it come to these sorts of things. I don't know why the newer driver won't run & I'm not sure it would fix this problem anyway.....probably I'm not typing the right command in terminal. I'd really appreciate the help. Mike
Ubuntu 9.04

[jmadero]

try using nvidia settings to do it

in terminal

sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings

then you'll find it in application -> graphics -> nvidia settings

that should do it

[ironhorse99]

try using nvidia settings to do it

in terminal

sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings

then you'll find it in application -> graphics -> nvidia settings

that should do it

No, That doesn't do it. I have the nvidia utility on my desktop & in the settings area there's nothing other than 60hz is listed.

[kmitnick]

have u ever used more than 60Hz?

[veerakumar]

You can change the refresh rate in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf configuration file.

[oz]

Welcome to the forums!

Be sure that you don't use a vertical refresh rate higher than that indicated by your monitor specifications to prevent burning out your monitor. Also, note that you'll need root permissions to edit any file outside of your /home directory.