kms howto - is there one?

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 19 18:58:52 UTC 2010


On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:01:07 -0400
Adam Jackson wrote:

> Use gtf(1) to generate mode timings for CRTs, and cvt(1) for LCDs.

So here's a presumptuous question :-).

If gtf and cvt ship as part of X, and they can turn a human
meaningful request for size and HZ into a X mode line,
then why on God's green earth can't X accept a mode described
in terms of size and HZ instead of a hieroglyphic mode line?

I thought computers were the ones that were good at fiddling
with data :-).


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