[tlinux-users:08623] Re: Refresh Rates in Xorg (Debian Etch)

Remember that your multiple VertRefresh rate may be for your CRT which U,
may someday attach to the laptop and for which "ideally" your xorg.conf is
setup for that iventuality. A sharp laptop is configured to be able to
seemlessly enable every feature of the laptop provided - even though the
user is not taking advantage of all those features -now.


On 8/26/07, bestonnet <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The screen should be able to accept a 100 Hz input signal
> but the hardware probably just discards 40 of those frames
> and runs it at 60 Hz anyway so you don't actually gain
> anything by running a typical LCD above 60 Hz (you just get
> dropped frames if you try).
>
> There are some LCDs that can run at higher refresh rates
> without dropping frames but they're pretty rare and very
> unlikely to be found in a laptop (i.e. you might have one
> but you almost certainly don't).
>
> --- "Joel T." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > bestonnet <[email protected]> wrote: You shouldn't
> > be running an LCD panel at anything other
> > than 60 Hz anyway.
> > Why not? the laptop's manual states the screen supports
> > 100Hz. Is that a hardware limitation? are you certain of
> > this?
> >
> > Joel.
> >
> >
> >
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