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Dustpuppy

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Posted: July 12 2005,19:11

Actually, I spent rather longer than 5 minutes trying to find a workaround. I was really disappointed that I couldn't find anything that would help, and am very pleased that there seems to be a way to make my own cd.

The problem with hidden gems is that they're hidden :cool:

Thankyou everyone for your directions, I shall give them a go.

ivrobi

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Posted: July 13 2005,06:37

Quote (ke4nt1 @ July 12 2005,20:39)

Since laptops now outsell desktop machines...
CRT's are becoming a dying breed..
LCD's will assume their place..
The 60HZ issue will die with the CRT's ..

Well, don't forget, that there are some (or should I say: many?) people -like me- running older PCs with CRTs... One thing that I like in DSL is that it fires up the older machines and you don't need some hyper-confs to run it. I run it as a liveCD with the 'toram' option on my 600MHz Celeron and -yep- I have a CRT monitor...

Greets!
Robert

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Posted: July 13 2005,07:14

And don't forget that as the CRTs become "obsolete", we'll be able to pick the "you beaut" ones for dirt cheap!
(Just this instant picked myself up a good 17" for Aus$20, now gotta see if I can install an old PCI vid card as well as my FX5200, and get dual-monitor setup with the 17" and 15"...)

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mikshaw

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Posted: July 13 2005,15:48

You should be able to change the refresh rate with the '-screen' parameter in .xserverrc:

-screen widthxheight[xdepth[xfreq]][@rotation]
use a screen of the specified width, height,
screen depth, frequency, and rotation (0, 90, 180
and 270 are legal values).

for example:
exec /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa -screen 1024x768x32x75
should give a refresh rate of 75hz

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cbagger01

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Posted: July 13 2005,16:33

Nope

Xvesa will only accept standard VESA 2.0 display timings (60Hz refresh rate).

Unless someone here has compiled a new version of XVesa that suddenly added support for VESA 3.0 refresh rate adjustment.

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