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During the spring of 1996 I've seen a lot of posts in comp.os.linux.x
asking how to convert video modes between XFree86 and one of its
commercial alternatives: XInside ( now named XiGraphics, note anyway
that in this document I'll use the old product name, since I will mainly
refer to that version )
I had evaluated before the product and had this evaluation version still
floating on my hard disk: since I like problem solving, I've decided to
give it a try and, after a couple of hours of fiddling and calculating,
I came up with a supposedly informative article that was promptly posted.
The discussions about how to convert suddendly vanished and I received
1 (one) mail thanking me for the article so, since maybe somebody else
could need this information in the future, I decided to transform that
post in the mini-HOWTO you are reading.
Let me state something first: I do NOT work for XInside and I only had
access to the evaluation 1.2 version for Linux. I know that nowadays (
May 97 ) AccelX has reached revision 3.1, but I do think that the
information included in this document, if not verbatim, is still
applicable.
Due to the fact that this HOWTO has been written with the help of a
pretty old Xinside version, it may well happen that some of the
information contained here is not completely accurate: as you will read
later, thanks to the birth of XFree 3.2, I haven't bought this
commercial server, so if you have, and if you notice any incorrect
information here please take the time to email me.
Notice anyway that fiddling with monitor timings can be
hazardous and, for this reason, I absolutely make no guarantees. If it
works for you , fine, if you blow up your computer I shall not be held
responsible for it.
As you may have noticed from may name, I'm not a native speaker of English
so you will probably find some errors here and there, I apologize for them
and I ask you to please avoid flooding my mailbox with language-related
flames. Thanks !
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