Bug 48248

Summary:	XFree86: Cannot change refresh rate with Radeon driver
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Timothy Miller <theosib>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	XFree86 configuration file

Description Timothy Miller 2004-04-18 11:39:56 UTC

I have a Radeon 9000 Pro connected to an LCD monitor via DVI.  No matter what I do, I cannot get the X server to use any refresh rate other than 60Hz.  Lots of places suggest that increasing refresh rate for LCD monitors helps with motion blur.

XF86Config will appear as an attachment.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure XF86Config for something other than 60Hz vertical
2. Start X server
3.

Actual Results:  
Display always comes up at 60Hz. 

Expected Results:  
Come up at the refresh rate I specified. 

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 
Portage 2.0.50-r5 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 
2.4.25-gentoo) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.4.25-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -finline-functions -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo 
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://gentoo.ccccom.com 
http://adelie.polymtl.ca/" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="3dnow X Xaw3d acpi aim apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bonobo cdr crypt cups 
dga directfb emacs emacs-w3 encode esd evo fbcon foomaticdb gb gd gd-external 
gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imlib innodb java jpeg kde 
libg++ libgda libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls 
oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php plotutils png postgres ppds python qt 
quicktime radeon readline samba sasl scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga 
tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype unicode usb video_cards_radeon wxwindows x86 
xml xml2 xmms xslt xv zlib"

Comment 1 Timothy Miller 2004-04-18 11:40:49 UTC

Created attachment 29563 [details]
XFree86 configuration file

Comment 2 Timothy Miller 2004-04-18 11:44:05 UTC

Note:  I have tried various methods for changing the refresh rate.  One was to change the VertRefresh line.  The other was to specify the refresh rate in the resolution name in the Screen section.  Neither one had any effect.

The monitor's manual (It's a Planar PQ191) says it can do higher than 60Hz, and I get get it to work at higher than 60Hz in Windows just fine.

Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-03 12:21:02 UTC

Please reopen and change the summary if this is still a problem with >=xorg-x11-6.8.0.