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squanto
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 Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 9:40 pm Post subject: Monitor refresh 85Hz in windows, 84.8Hz in Linux |
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OK, I have posted about this before, but it was at the bottom of another post and no one responded and it has been about two months.
I have an NEC FE2111 monitor, it can do 1600x1200@85Hz fine in Windows, but will not allow me to run it at anything higher than 1600x1200@84.8Hz in Linux. I have tried modelines from about every single modeline generator and possibility of modelines and the best I can get is to run at 84.8hz. This wouldn't be a problem, other than when running at 84.8Hz, the monitor is unreadable, while at 85Hz it is fine.
I have Geforce3 card, and have tried with many of the nvidia drivers and also the nv driver from xfree. I have tried 2 versions of xfree, one being the most recent in stable portage, and one version before that (sorry I don't remember the version numbers right now).
Any ideas/ suggestions? I am actually typing this on my laptop connected to the monitor running at 85hz right now, and it is fine.
I tried some of the edid options for nvidia cards, and they didn't help either. I talked with NEC support and they really didn't know much about xfree or why that would happen.
Thanks for the help!
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Malakin
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| Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 10:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | This wouldn't be a problem, other than when running at 84.8Hz, the monitor is unreadable, while at 85Hz it is fine. |
What do you mean by unreadable?
I assume you're using the nvidia driver, have you tried the nv driver just to see what happens? Timing is effected by the driver. |
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squanto
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| Malakin wrote: | | What do you mean by unreadable? |
When running at 84.8hz, the monitor is very fuzzy, to the point where it gives me a head ache. Where as when running at 85hz it is fine.
| Malakin wrote: | | have you tried the nv driver just to see what happens? |
yes
| squanto wrote: | | ...and have tried with many of the nvidia drivers and also the nv driver from xfree... |
All the drivers I have tried acomplish the same thing, which is to say that they don't work correctly.
To clarify, I can run fine with the monitor set to 1280x1024@85hz, so that is how I use it, but I would like to be able to run 16x12, as that was one of my main reasons to get a new monitor.
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Malakin
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| Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | When running at 84.8hz, the monitor is very fuzzy, to the point where it gives me a head ache. Where as when running at 85hz it is fine. |
Maybe the blurryness is actually caused by something else other then the refresh rate being .2Hz different...
How does it look when you run it at 1600x1200@75Hz in Linux? |
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squanto
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| Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| Malakin wrote: | | How does it look when you run it at 1600x1200@75Hz in Linux? |
It looks fine, but 75Hz is slightly too slow for me, I would rather have 85Hz as it is easier on the eyes in my opinion.
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