[Lilux-help] Fonts, Monitors and Graphics cards

[Pascal Steichen]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:02:17AM +0200, Eric Dondelinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Patrick Kaell wrote:
> > Patrick Useldinger wrote:
> > > -2- the configuration for the monitor? For the desktop, I have put into
> > > xorg.conf the values I found in my monitor's book; for the laptop, I
> > > couldn't find the information yet so I left the defaults.
> 
> The resulting refresh rate for an LCD should be about 60Hz. Some
> will handle up to 75Hz, but many will show an "unclean" picture
> if the signal goes that high (for external LCDs connected via
> normal VGA anyway).
> 
> > > -3- the graphics card driver? The desktop has a ATI Radeon 7500, and I
> > > use the X.org "radeon" driver. For the laptop, I ended up using "vesa",
> > > short of anything specific available for an ATI 3D Rage LT Pro.
> 
> The Rage should work with the Mach64 driver IIRC. ATI also provides
> closed-source drivers, I'd guess those might support the Rage series.

The rage cards often use the "r128" (or similar name) driver, I also got a laptop with almost the same card and use that driver.

> 
> Greets Eric
> 
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