Xfree86 gripe

[Nathan Meyers]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:04:58AM -0400, FRamsay at castelhq.com wrote:
> Why are modelines so obscure?
> 
> I have a Gateway FPD2200 Flatpanel (22" 16x9 aspect ratio) capable of
> 1600x1024.  and for the life of me I can't figure out a modeline to get it
> to
> run at that resolution!
>
> The info I have is this:
> res       hFreq     vFreq
> 1600 x 1024    64.350    60

Have you visited this site:

    http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl

?

Nathan Meyers
nmeyers at javalinux.net

> I've tried guessing at a few modelines but the best I can get the monitor
> to run is 1280x1024.
> 
> Does anyone know of a site that actually explains in _english_  (aka not in
> geek) how to figure out modelines.
> yes I've tried google, the few explinations that exist are in geek.  I
> require one in english.
> 
>                     -fjr
> 
> Frank Ramsay
> Systems Programmer
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