Newbie here with ATI card

[Nelson Montague]

> > I appreciate your help, NoOp! Now my monitor runs on 85Hz... (Not
> > 100Hz, as in Windows, but why?)
> >
> > However, the interesting thing is even if I restore things in
> > xorg.conf to the original
> >
> > Section "Monitor"
> >       Identifier      "Generic Monitor"
> >       Option          "DPMS"
> >       HorizSync       30-70
> >       VertRefresh     50-160
> > EndSection
> >
> > I can use the 85Hz refresh rate. Strange, but nice.

> Sure; Windows probably is probably overclocking your monitor and could
> possibly damage it. You'd have to look at your monitor documentation to
> see if it can support 100 & if so just change the Horizsync rate
> accordingly.
My monitor supports 96kHz - I guess that's good for 1024x768 @ 100Hz

> There is a small package & command to extract the monitor values... I
> used it just last week, but it escapes me as to what it is right now. If
> I think of it I'll post back.
Think of it, NoOp! ;)

Thank you!

Nelson