From: bcr@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Bill C. Riemers) Subject: Fine-tuning Xconfig files (was: Re: SC sources...) Date: 30 Mar 1993 16:43:24 GMT
In article <PCG.93Mar27154010@decb.aber.ac.uk> you write:
>I have written and normally use the attached SC spreadsheet (already
>posted a while ago); and a lot of trial-and-error to push the limits of
>the manufacturer's specs.
Hi there,
I just wanted to make a couple of comments.
1) Spread-sheets are great to get a readable screen, if you know enough of
the specs about your monitor to use one.
2) Forget about using a spread-sheet, to try to fine-tune the results to
the limit of manufactor specs.
Once you have a viewable term window, there is a program call vgaset on
sunsite.unc.edu that allows you to interactively fine-tune your display.
By using this program I was finially able to generate a flicker-free display
for my ATI Graphics Ultra Pro in 1152x910. By trial-and-error I had failed
in the past to even get close enough to this goal to realize it was possable.
When I downloaded the program vgaset, there where a few bugs that made it
unreliable. Hopefully those are all fixed now, but you never know what
someone with a different graphics card will find.
Bill