monitor Refresh rate

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Nezumikozo wrote:

> I am using Mandrive LE 2005 with a Samsung 955DF monitor attached to a Nvidia 
> FX5200-based graphics card.  I cannot find anywhere to ajust the refresh rate 
> for the monitor.  I seems to be somewhere in the 70's as far as Hz if I had 
> to guess and is making this high pitched noise that is driving me crazy. 
> Does anyone know how I can change it to, say, 100Hz?

     Edit the "Monitor" section in /etc/X11/XF86Config.

     You can use xvidtune to generate the ideal ModeLine.

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