refresh rate

[sweetvenom]

How do we change the refresh rate of the monitor in Red Hat Linux 9.0?

[pradeep_chauhan]

open the configration file found at the folloing location

#vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Now scroll down to the monitor section and you will see something as seen below


Identifier "dell"

# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

HorizSync 31.5 - 57.0

# HorizSync 30-64 # multisync
# HorizSync 31.5, 35.2 # multiple fixed sync frequencies
# HorizSync 15-25, 30-50 # multiple ranges of sync frequencies

# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.

VertRefresh 50-100


edit the existing value and add the desired refresh rate supported by your monitor.

There are also some utilites available to do this via some gui setup.

[sweetvenom]

Linux recognises my monitor as LG 700B instead of LG 700E. My display is set at 1024x768 @ 60HZ. I want to change it o 1024x768 @ 85 Hz.

[cool_dude_prav]

I believe that you can choose your own Refresh Rates(within manufacturer's limits though) using a proggie called gtf

I shall explain it here..

Say for example, you want it to be 640*480 @ 75Hz.

Install gtf (dunno how its done on RH )

You can use the following command : gtf <vertical size> <horizontal size> <refresh rate>

gtf 640 480 75

It will give an output as 2 lines...

# 640x480 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 37.65 kHz; pclk: 30.72 MHz
  Modeline "640x480_75.00"  30.72  640 664 728 816  480 481 484 502  -HSync +Vsync

Paste these 2 lines in your xorg.conf(dont forget to backup) in the monitor section

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	HorizSync	31-101
	VertRefresh	60-160
EndSection

will now become

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Generic Monitor"
	HorizSync	31-101
	VertRefresh	60-160
        # 640x480 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 37.65 kHz; pclk: 30.72 MHz
        Modeline "640x480_75.00"  30.72  640 664 728 816  480 481 484 502  -HSync +Vsync
EndSection

Hope it helps...

BTW Source from an Ubuntu support forum...

Cheers!!!

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