skaos
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Posted: May 13 2004,14:09 |
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There is a workaround to avoid the 60 Hz refresh rate - when googling I found the following:
Refresh rates
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There is no way to change the vesafb video mode and/or timings after
booting linux. If you are not happy with the 60 Hz refresh rate, you
have these options:
* configure and load the DOS-Tools for your the graphics board (if
available) and boot linux with loadlin.
* use a native driver (matroxfb/atyfb) instead if vesafb. If none
is available, write a new one!
* VBE 3.0 might work too. I have neither a gfx board with VBE 3.0
support nor the specs, so I have not checked this yet.
I tried the first and it works - I am now running 640x480 at 72 Hz using a Tseng ET4000 card. The problem may be to find any dos tools ... (Scitech have some dos tools that may/may not work, http://www.scitechsoft.com/ftp/sdd/).
(Admittedly, I have tried this with Basic Linux 3.21, but as both use Xvesa, it should work with DSL as well. One problem though, you have to have a clean dos boot without accessing autoexec.bat or config.sys as Xvesa appearently won't work otherwise. Also look at the bottom of http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....5;t=176 )
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