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From: Jasen Betts
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:14

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On 2012-03-13, Joel Koltner <zapwire-usenet@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Jan Panteltje wrote:
>> Wrong, you should have mentioned Amiga, that one actually had genlock IIRC.
>
> It did although I believe it was stuck at a ~15.75kHz line rate.  I.e., 
> the locking was meant to support the small variations in line rate that 
> you'd get coming out of video recorders or cheap cameras, but it didn't 
> support markedly different frame rates.
>
> Why is X limited to a fixed frame-rate, though?  It seems like having an 
> API to deal with an adjustable frame-rate would be a pretty 
> straightforward addition?

I think it does xrandr changes the display geometry, and xvidtune does
(or did) the same sort of thing at a lower level tweaking the CRTC 
counter limits and pixel clock 

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