eye-friendly refresh rate?

[Frank McCormick]

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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
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