Re: [Pcbsd-developer] Re: xorg auto detection

[Federico L. <flo...@gm...>]

On Sunday 16 October 2005 01:33 pm, Renato Fl=F3rido wrote:
> Andrew Youll wrote:
> > On 16 Oct 2005, at 14:21, Renato Fl=F3rido wrote:
> >> Andrei Kolu wrote:
> >>> Federico Lorenzi wrote:
> >>>> On Sunday 16 October 2005 09:51 am, Renato Pinto Fl=F3rido wrote:
> >>>>> Frederico wrote:
> >>>>> /Again I say maybe we should just use the Xorg auto-detection,  it
> >>>>> seems
> >>>>> to be good enough and finds the max-resolutions quite well.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> /Frederico, does the Xorg auto-detection detect vertical and
> >>>>> horizontal
> >>>>> refresh rates?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> what they are trying to achieve here with DDC is a detection
> >>>>> feature that
> >>>>> can config V/H refresh rates as well. Afaik, Xorg auto-detection
> >>>>> didnt do
> >>>>> this.
> >>>>
> >>>> Well, I'm not really a moniter expert, but I used Xorg detection on
> >>>> my laptop, my dad's laptop and on my desktop, and it detected all
> >>>> the screens fine, on my laptop the res was 1024x768 (The max), on
> >>>> my dad's it was 1920x1280 (The max) and on my desktop 1280x1024
> >>>> (The max).
> >>>
> >>> What about refresh rate? With LCD 60Hz is fine, but with CRT it's
> >>> headache.
> >>>
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> >> we are talking about vertical/ horizontal refresh rates here... you
> >> know...
> >
> > Okay they are infact called V-Sync and H-Sync not V-Refresh rate, and
> > H-Refresh Rate. if that helps clear up any confusion
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> Thank you Andrew, you have cleared the smoke here.
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Ok, I'm confused here :) So I support the monitor database idea.
But could someone also explain wtf v-sync and h-sync are?