Refresh rates and the dangers of playing...

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

You might need to search for your monitor specs online. Both Red Hat's 
xconfigurator and SuSE's SAX have monitor databases.
Try looking at this document as a starting place. 
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/XFree86-Video-Timings-HOWTO.html
Also if you send me your monitor make and model number, I can check it out 
with SuSE's SAX.
cprincipe at mindspring.com wrote:

> My question is, how dangerous is it to manipulate those refresh rates?  I can
> 't track down any documentation to get what my montior's specs are.  Will I b
> low up my monitor if I play with the refresh rates in order to get a higher r
> esolution?  The main drag is the size of everything and having to scroll arou
> nd in the virtual desktop.  I would like to run a minimum of 800x600, and eve
> n 1024x768 if I could.
-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org


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