gnome-display-properties: refresh rate?

[Fabio Massimo Di Nitto]

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Maurice F. Piller wrote:
| I've installed ubuntu on two different machines (i386 and amd64) and have
| experienced the same problem on both machines. Using the screen
resolution gui
| (gnome-display-properties) I am able to select screen resolution from
a list of
| options (and it works), however there is only one refresh rate
offered, 60Hz. I
| would like to be able to adjust the screen refresh rate.

To change refresh rates you need to reconfigure X. It is a very simple step:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86

and the system will drive you trough a bunch of questions, including
resolution you want to run and frequencies. Note that in order for the
changes to take effect, you must not have changed the configuration
manually and you will need to restart X. Logout and login is not enough.

Fabio

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