From: Marcus Sundberg <mackan@stacken.kth.se>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 19:31:33 +0200

Re: make-3.77 and another problem

Jim Ursetto wrote:
> 
> At 09:29 AM on 1998 August 28, Boszormenyi Zoltan did write:
> > At 07.53 1998.08.28. +0100, Jon M. Taylor wrote:
> > >> 800x600x(8 or 32)              - the upper 1/3 of the screen is blanked.
> > >
> > >     Timing problems.  Have you tried a different monitor driver?
> >
> > It is the same with both timelist VESA and monosync SVGA.
> > I have not tried any multisync monitor driver yet. I will try some that
> > do not exceed my monitor's specs too much.
> 
> I have the same problem here, and have had for several months--both
> timelist and monosync give large blank areas on the top and on the left
> side of the screen.  Multisync works fine, _but_ the monitors in the list
> have extremely high max refresh rates (90-100 Hz) and my picture is
> distorted or way off center in this case (I manually change the monitor
> spec file to fix this, you can too).

No need to change the spec file. Just do:
echo 70 > /proc/sys/dev/fb?/monitor/vmax
to change the max refreshrate to 70

//Marcus
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