Subject: Re: qtopia
To: None <tgen@netphreax.net>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/03/2006 19:35:02
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Hello,

>>> Except that some of us can't look at CRT displays with refresh rates
>>> below 85Hz without seeing 'large area flicker' - which hurts.
>> Then you should switch resolution as well.
>> On a TFT that doesn't make much sense though and I think we should 
>> have reasonable support for both cases.
>
> Well, if the monitor supports certain modes with >=85Hz vertrefresh, 
> the display driver should as well (if the RAMDAC supports it, that 
> is). On a sidenote, I have my two IIyama VMP454s running at 
> 1600x1200x32 @ 100Hz without problem. As for TFTs, I was under the 
> impression that the analog refresh rate doesn't matter because the 
> internal analog->digital panel converter has no glow decay like a CRT 
> (same goes for the refresh rate of a panel connected via DVI btw).

The point was that it doesn't make sense to switch /resolution/ on a 
TFT so it would make sense to switch colour depth independently.

have fun
Michael
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