changing refresh rate.

changing refresh rate.

[manish regmi]

hi all,
 How can i change the refresh Rate. I am using Fedora Core 2.
The monitor settings(gdm) does not have refresh rate option. I want to
make it exactly 100 HZ(My system supports this value in Windows). I
have Geforce 2 MX 100/200 card and have installed propritary driver
from nVidia.

I looked in the xorg.conf file. There is not any entry about refrash rate.

Thanks in advance.
Manish
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Re: changing refresh rate.

[mike]

manish regmi wrote:
> hi all,
>  How can i change the refresh Rate. I am using Fedora Core 2.
> The monitor settings(gdm) does not have refresh rate option. I want to
> make it exactly 100 HZ(My system supports this value in Windows). I
> have Geforce 2 MX 100/200 card and have installed propritary driver
> from nVidia.
> 
> I looked in the xorg.conf file. There is not any entry about refrash rate.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Manish

I have MDK10.0 came with XFree I installed Xorg on mine the
xorg.conf is linked to XF86Config-4
xorg.conf -> XF86Config-4
Should be a section

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "monitor1"
    VendorName "Dell"
    ModelName "Dell P780"
    HorizSync 30-85
    VertRefresh 48-120

But be aware that you could damage a videocard or monitor with the
wrong values, at least that was warnings I have seen.

You can do a google search for linux and your monitor/display and
see if others have dealt with your hardware.

Keep an open mind on what hardware can do in windows and what it can
do in Linux.

Mike
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RE: changing refresh rate.

[james niland]

hi all,
Manish wrote :

 How can i change the refresh Rate. I am using Fedora Core 2.
The monitor settings(gdm) does not have refresh rate option. I
want to
make it exactly 100 HZ(My system supports this value in
Windows). I
have Geforce 2 MX 100/200 card and have installed propritary
driver
from nVidia.

I looked in the xorg.conf file. There is not any entry about
refrash 
rate.

Thanks in advance.
Manish
*********************************************************

I have been in the same situation, and the settings pointed out
in the other reply are the ones I've changed as well.
However, the drive from nvidia will actually try to get the 
maximum capabilites of your monitor and not overclock it.

This only works though with monitors that pass that information
back to the video card when requested. All modern monitors
should do this.

I found that out trying to run 120Hz on a high resolution on my
monitor, which would work on the "nv" driver, but not the
"nvidia" one. In the end it pays to be cautious, try to approach
the refresh rate from the lower end.

Cheers
James




		
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