From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adrian Tritschler Subject: Re: [9fans] screen res, what's your maximum? In-reply-to: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-id: <3F84ABDA.5080006@ajft.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030924 Thunderbird/0.3 References: Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 10:29:14 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 68b2b32a-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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=20 a cursor. Since the power supply here in the civilised world is 50Hz, screen=20 refresh rates of 60Hz are not particularly useful. The resulting 10Hz=20 beat frequency is quite noticable. As an aside, what a lot of 60Hz folk have complained about over the=20 years of 50Hz being "too slow and flickery" for the human eye is more=20 often them watching 50Hz displays on 60Hz power supplies, and noticing=20 the same 10Hz beat. > m Adrian --------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Tritschler mailto:ajft@ajft.org Latitude 38=B0S, Longitude 145=B0E, Altitude 50m, Shoe size 44 ---------------------------------------------------------------