eye-friendly refresh rate?

[Eberhard Roloff]

Frank McCormick wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> | Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> |> Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:
> |>> When I install ubuntu, I always get 60 Hz refresh rate.  This is very
> |>> annoying on a non-flat CRT.
> |> Well, I think it would be equally annoying on flat CRT's ! ;o)
> |>
> |>> In the system config menu, where screen resolution can be changed,
> |>> there is a menubutton to select different refresh rates.  But this
> |>> menu contains only one entry (60Hz).
> |>>
> |>
> |> Most likely, it's because when you installed Ubuntu, your monitor was
> |> not detected properly, and therefore it used fail safe/conservative
> |> default values, which has the unfortunate side effect only allow for low
> |
> | You could also try:
> |
> | sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
> 
> 
> ~   And after all this it may be you will be stuck with the 60 hz refresh
> rate. On my machine if I want to run 1280x1024 I have no choice but 60
> hz. It depends how the xserver-xorg was setup and the capabilities of
> your video card/monitor combination.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Frank
I doubt this. While X is sometimes complicated, imho the beauty of X is
that you can set anything up to your likings, if it physically works.

I would recommend to google for "modeline calculator" or similar to set
your 1280x1024 to a eye-friendly refresh rate.

regards
Eberhard