Configuring video timing parameters for X386 is something of a black art.
If the VDID standard actually happens, it may become an obsolete art as well.
-In the meantime, this package offers some guidance for the perplexed. It
+In the meantime, this package offers some tools for the perplexed. It
includes the following files:
READ.ME --- this file
Makefile --- a makefile, what else?
-timing.guide --- The Hitchhiker's Guide to X386 Video Timing
-
xve.c --- source for the X Video Explorer
The X Video Explorer tries to help you configure timings for your monitor,
in the right general region of the parameter space (and it automates away
a lot of grubby calculations).
+To use xve you will also need "The Hitchhiker's Guide to XFree86 Video
+Timings". You can get this via the following URL:
+
+ http://www.ccil.org/~esr/xconfig/video-modes.html
+
+If you don't find it there, search with Lycos or Alta Vista.
+
For updates and related resources, http://www.ccil.org/~esr/home.html.
RELEASE NOTES
Release 1.1 (24 Oct 1994):
* Timing Guide has been updated.
+Release 1.2 (10 Feb 1996):
+ * Timing guide now distributed separately.