From: Adrian Tritschler <ajft@ajft.org>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] screen res, what's your maximum?
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:29:14 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F84ABDA.5080006@ajft.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d69ca462b74ea8273d58017906cd3de9@juice.thebigchoice.com>
matt@proweb.co.uk wrote:
> okay, we all know of VGA hell, but what do people have as VGA heaven?
A card that works with plan9?
> can anyone beat 1600x1200 at 24bpp ?
Not quite.
I use an S3 card and 19" HP91 monitor at:
Windows 2000: 1600x1200x16bpp, 75Hz
Linux/Xfree: 1600x1200x16bpp, 75Hz
Plan9: 1024x768x8bpp, I *think* 56 or 60Hz, with an ugly blob instead of
a cursor.
Since the power supply here in the civilised world is 50Hz, screen
refresh rates of 60Hz are not particularly useful. The resulting 10Hz
beat frequency is quite noticable.
As an aside, what a lot of 60Hz folk have complained about over the
years of 50Hz being "too slow and flickery" for the human eye is more
often them watching 50Hz displays on 60Hz power supplies, and noticing
the same 10Hz beat.
> m
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-09 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-08 23:30 matt
2003-10-08 22:40 ` Scott Schwartz
2003-10-08 22:52 ` mirtchov
2003-10-08 23:52 ` matt
2003-10-09 0:27 ` vdharani
2003-10-08 23:16 ` mirtchov
2003-10-09 0:31 ` matt
2003-10-09 0:32 ` [9fans] fonts (was: screen res, what's your maximum?) Joel Salomon
2003-10-09 0:56 ` mirtchov
2003-10-09 2:09 ` Scott Schwartz
2003-10-09 2:35 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-10-09 3:16 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-10-09 4:04 ` mirtchov
2003-10-09 5:29 ` Rob Pike
2003-10-09 2:44 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-10-09 0:28 ` [9fans] screen res, what's your maximum? Geoff Collyer
2003-10-09 1:42 ` matt
2003-10-09 0:55 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-10-09 11:09 ` a
2003-10-09 1:54 ` jmk
2003-10-09 0:29 ` Adrian Tritschler [this message]
2003-10-09 8:24 ` Richard Miller
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