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<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Introduction</A></H2>
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<P>During the spring of 1996 I've seen a lot of posts in comp.os.linux.x
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asking how to convert video modes between XFree86 and one of its
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commercial alternatives: XInside ( now named XiGraphics, note anyway
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that in this document I'll use the old product name, since I will mainly
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refer to that version )
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<P>I had evaluated before the product and had this evaluation version still
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floating on my hard disk: since I like problem solving, I've decided to
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give it a try and, after a couple of hours of fiddling and calculating,
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I came up with a supposedly informative article that was promptly posted.
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<P>The discussions about how to convert suddendly vanished and I received
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1 (one) mail thanking me for the article so, since maybe somebody else
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could need this information in the future, I decided to transform that
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post in the mini-HOWTO you are reading.
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<P>Let me state something first: I do NOT work for XInside and I only had
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access to the evaluation 1.2 version for Linux. I know that nowadays (
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May 97 ) AccelX has reached revision 3.1, but I do think that the
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information included in this document, if not verbatim, is still
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applicable.
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<P>Due to the fact that this HOWTO has been written with the help of a
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pretty old Xinside version, it may well happen that some of the
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information contained here is not completely accurate: as you will read
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later, thanks to the birth of XFree 3.2, I haven't bought this
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commercial server, so if you have, and if you notice any incorrect
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information here please take the time to email me.
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<P>Notice anyway that fiddling with monitor timings can be
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hazardous and, for this reason, I absolutely make no guarantees. If it
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works for you , fine, if you blow up your computer I shall not be held
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responsible for it.
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<P>As you may have noticed from may name, I'm not a native speaker of English
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so you will probably find some errors here and there, I apologize for them
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and I ask you to please avoid flooding my mailbox with language-related
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flames. Thanks !
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