FC3 - screen refresh

[Kevin Freeman]

On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 21:31 -0500, david langton wrote:
> Yes I have tried this.  According to Apple's specs, the frequencies of this monitor are:
> 30 - 82 (horizontal)
> 50 - 120 (vertical)
> and I entered these values in the monitor section of xorg.conf, but it doesn't change the available (selectable) values 
> for refresh rate in the display preferences.  You're right that it is a Sony (trinitron tube), but the only available specifications I can find are at the Apple site.  (Strangely, the specs there disagree sliightly with the specs at the monitorworld site.  Maybe a typo.)  Are ther any other ideas for setting the screen refresh to 75Hz?
> 
> --David

In /etc/X11/xorg.conf you can try changing the vertical refresh entry to
read 75 - 120.  Note that this may cause X to fail to start if it
refuses to use the 75 Hz refresh rate.

Kevin Freeman