[plug] Changing refresh rate to something higher than 85Hz??

[Simon Duff]

Which driver are you using, the opensource or the proprietry nvidia one?
XFree86 or XOrg?
I believe that when I wanted to change refreshes, I did this (though I 
changed down, due to noises my monitor made at high refresh):
Section "Monitor"
   Identifier "<WHATEVER>"
   HorizSync 30-62
   VertRefresh 50-75
EndSection

The appropriate values should be in your monitor documentation (it can 
be dangerous to go over the hsync value I think, don't quote me).

Maybe post your X config file?

Simon

Ari Finander wrote:

>Hi all,
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>I'm not having any luck getting a refresh rate higher than 85Hz. I have a Viewsonic E95 19" CRT monitor plugged into a Riva TNT2 PCI card that, according to its specifications, should be able to do 1280x1024 @ 88Hz and 1024x768 @ 116Hz. WinXP Home puts it up to 100Hz without issue at 1024x768. I confirm this with the monitor's own reporting using the OSD. When I switch to Fedora Core 2 (using my KVM switch) the refresh rate drops to 85Hz regardless of resolution.
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>I tried using a modeline generator with the hrefresh 30-95KHz and vrefresh 50-180Hz with a resolution of 1024x768 @ 100Hz without success (I added the modeline to the monitor section of xorg.conf as instructed by the generator):
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>Modeline "1024x768 at 100" 126.64 1024 1056 1536 1568 768 781 794 807
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>Restarting the xserver went fine, but the refresh rate was still only 85Hz. Switch over to Windows, and the refresh goes up to 100Hz at the same resolution.
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>xvidtune allows me to cycle through resolutions and move the screen position around, but not increase or decrease the refresh rate. system-config-display doesn't even permit me to set the resolution to 1280x1024 (which I've been using previously), let alone change the refresh rate.
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>It pisses me off that something can be so easilly accomplished using windows but despite a couple of tools built into FC2 I can't get my refresh rate up where I'm comfortable using my monitor!
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>Do any of you have any tips or ideas on how to fix this problem?
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>Cheers,
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>Ari
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