RE: Vertical refresh rate under NT

["Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

>
> > Hi all!
> >
> > Did anyone managed to set the vertical refresh frequency
> > of the Xserver (DX driver - fullscreen) under Windows NT?
> >
> I`v got a .zip, address of which you kindly posted and
> have some experiments yestarday:
> 1) It works fine for me: 1024x768x8 at 85 Hz
> I started Xwin -screen 0 1024x768x8 bla-bla-bla from bash shell, then
> xterm, then twm.
> 2) Xterm doesn`t understand my typing, wrong characters appears on the
> screen,
> not that I type.


International keybaords are not supported by default, but just any other
X on a UNIX, you should be able to create a .modmap using modmap utility to
support
Russian keyboard.

Suhaib


> I didn`t found eny solution to this problem yet. But I haven`t enough
> time to play.
> I have NT server 4.0 SP6.
>
> PS: Starcraft Works!!!
> Regards.
>  Dmitry Valetin <valetin at redcenter dot ru>
> > On my NT WSK SP5 the refresh freq. of the screen opened
> > has some obscure relation to desktop display mode I cannot figure out.
> > In any case I could not get it run higher than 75Hz.
> >
> > It seems to be a pitfall of NT's DirectX 3.0 which does not seem
> > to allow to pass the refresh rate in IDirectDraw_SetDisplayMode call
> > used by xf_dx.c
> > I see this is possible in DirectX 7
> >  (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/directx/ddref_1pkn.htm)
> >
> > I know there is a set of DLLs to hack NT into supporting DX 5
> > (http://forum.arstechnica.com/forum/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000050.html)
> > but I'm not sure if this is enough to support refresh argument
> in Set_DisplayMode.
> > Any DirectX experts here?
> >
> > Or is there another way to run a X server with reasonable
> (controllable)
> > refresh freq under NT? (short of running it in a window)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Przemek