[linux-help] Re: X has ghosts and literally giving me a headache

[Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Clint Brubakken wrote:
> 
> Thats what it got by probing my monitor. It will only do 1280x1024 at
> 60hz. Its a samtron 77V. The video card is a Sis 8meg onboard.
> 
> It doesn't give the headache it used to, but I still have the ghosts (2
> mostly white lines that follow the cursor)
> 
> I haven't restarted x since I made changes with the shadow, so that
> might fix that.
> 
> Is the a way to tell what refresh rate its using?

xvidtune

it starts out with whatever you're running, then lets you tweak it. it
will then kick out tuning parameters that you can paste into your config
file.

yer buddy esr wrote a howto on xvidtune.

> It is capable to do
> 1024x768@85 hz, with windows, but how to do that with X?

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