Bug 62115

Summary: Refresh rate stuck at 60Hz
Product: xorg Reporter: josealb <josealb77>
Component: Driver/nouveauAssignee: Nouveau Project <nouveau>
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: critical    
Priority: medium CC: josealb77
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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boot - change to 60Hz - change to 75Hz but my monitor is still at 60 Hz none

Description josealb 2013-03-10 16:24:28 UTC
Created attachment 76277 [details]
boot - change to 60Hz - change to 75Hz but my monitor is still at 60 Hz

Hi,
I'm using Linux Mint 14 MATE x64 kernel 3.5.0-25 with a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 video card and a ViewSonic VG1921wm monitor.

Using the NVIDIA privative driver I can set the monitor resolution to 1440x900 @ 75Hz in Menu > Preferences > Display. Then with the monitor buttons I look in Information and it says that vertical frequency is 74.8Hz, and when I set it to 1440x900 @ 60Hz, the monitor says that vertical frequency is 59.9Hz, namely: all works well.

But when I'm using Nouveau it has no effect, whatever I set in Menu > Preferences > Display the information of my monitor always shows a vertical frequency of 59.9Hz.

What can I do in order to get the real 1440x900@75Hz resolution with Nouveau?
Comment 1 Ilia Mirkin 2013-08-19 22:45:36 UTC
[    24.417] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Supported standard timings:
[    24.417] (II) NOUVEAU(0): #0: hsize: 1440  vsize 900  refresh: 60  vid: 149
[    24.417] (II) NOUVEAU(0): #1: hsize: 1440  vsize 900  refresh: 75  vid: 3989
...
[    24.418] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Printing probed modes for output DVI-I-1
[    24.418] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1440x900"x59.9  106.50  1440 1520 1672 1904  900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync (55.9 kHz eP)
[    24.418] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1280x1024"x75.0  135.00  1280 1296 1440 1688  1024 1025 1028 1066 +hsync +vsync (80.0 kHz e)

Seems like it sees both the 59.9Hz and 75Hz modes just fine.

You should be able to select the right ones by sticking stuff in your xorg.conf or by doing something like

xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1440x900 --refresh 75

(or maybe --mode "1440x900"x75)

If you're still having trouble, feel free to re-open and provide the output of "xrandr -q".

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