On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 18:03 -0600, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 19:43 -0400, Jim Cornette wrote: > > This probably is not a solution, but did you see if you could adjust > > "gnome-display-properties". There is a pull-down you can adjust > > vertical refresh. I am thinking that one is interacting with the X settings. > > > > Regarding the Intel 865, I have an 856G away at work. I run 1280x1024 > > and note no problem. I believe gnome-display-properties shows 75HZ for > > my settings. I can check out this tomorrow to verify vertical settings. > > I have th latest version released into updates for FC4 installed. > > I tried that when I had a max setting of 1024x768. The only option it > would display is 85Hz and it wouldn't work. Thereafter I set up > 1280x1024, but never tried your suggestion on THAT setting. > > Well, I just tried it, and it offers 75Hz for 1280x1024, and all is > working. > > Thank you for making the suggestion. I still don't understand where the > 87Hz is coming from, and I can't use 1024x768, but I'll take 1280x1024. > It may be that the auto-sync feature of the monitor is requesting 87Hz for that resolution and so it is bailing out since the refresh rate is limited to a max of 85 by xorg.conf. Note that you could have tested by manually adjusting that setting in xorg.conf and seen if the new setting would work. > -- > Bill Gradwohl > >