Refresh Rate Setting

I have a LCD monitor that has some weird lines through it when the refresh rate i set to 59.9. When you change it to 75 everything is fine. I was wondering what you can do on a Mac Pro with the ATI Radeon HD 2600 Xt video card in order to get the refresh rate to 75 hertz if all the system preferences will only let you select 59.9 hertz ?

Try switchResX
<http://www.madrau.com>
or DisplayConfigX
<http://www.3dexpress.de>

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    #    VideoRam   256
    #    Clocks     25.2 28.3
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    Section "Device"
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        Monitor     "My Monitor"
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            Modes       "1024x768"
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            Depth       16
            Modes       "1024x768"
            ViewPort    0 0
        EndSubsection
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            Modes       "1024x768"
            ViewPort    0 0
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    (II) I810(0): BIOS call 0x5f05 not supported, setting refresh with VBE 3 method.
    (WW) I810(0): Set VBE Mode rejected this modeline.
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    Release Date: 11 June 2008
    X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
    Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.25-ARCH i686
    Current Operating System: Linux arch 2.6.25-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jul 14 15:25:51 UTC 2008 i686
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    (**) | |-->Device "Videocard0"
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    (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
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    (==) Automatically enabling devices
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    /usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
    /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
    /usr/share/fonts/TTF,
    /usr/share/fonts/misc,
    /usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled,
    /usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled,
    /usr/share/fonts/TTF,
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    X.Org Video Driver: 2.0
    X.Org XInput driver : 2.0
    X.Org Server Extension : 0.3
    X.Org Font Renderer : 0.5
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    (II) PCI: 00:02:0: chip 1002,5a34 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,04,00 hdr 01
    (II) PCI: 00:12:0: chip 1002,4379 card 103c,2a24 rev 00 class 01,01,8f hdr 00
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    (II) PCI: 00:13:1: chip 1002,4375 card 103c,2a24 rev 00 class 0c,03,10 hdr 00
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    (II) PCI: 00:14:3: chip 1002,4377 card 103c,2a24 rev 00 class 06,01,00 hdr 80
    (II) PCI: 00:14:4: chip 1002,4371 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,04,01 hdr 81
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    (II) PCI: 00:18:3: chip 1022,1103 card 0000,0000 rev 00 class 06,00,00 hdr 80
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    [3] -1 0 0xfe02c000 - 0xfe02cfff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [4] -1 0 0xfe02d000 - 0xfe02dfff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [5] -1 0 0xfe02e000 - 0xfe02efff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [6] -1 0 0xfe02f000 - 0xfe02f1ff (0x200) MX[b]
    [7] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
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    [9] -1 0 0xd0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x10000000) MX[b](B)
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    [12] -1 0 0x0000de00 - 0x0000deff (0x100) IX[b]
    [13] -1 0 0x0000df00 - 0x0000dfff (0x100) IX[b]
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    [17] -1 0 0x000001f0 - 0x000001f0 (0x1) IX[b]
    [18] -1 0 0x000001f0 - 0x000001f7 (0x8) IX[b]
    [19] -1 0 0x00000500 - 0x0000050f (0x10) IX[b]
    [20] -1 0 0x0000fa00 - 0x0000fa0f (0x10) IX[b]
    [21] -1 0 0x0000fb00 - 0x0000fb03 (0x4) IX[b]
    [22] -1 0 0x0000fc00 - 0x0000fc07 (0x8) IX[b]
    [23] -1 0 0x0000fd00 - 0x0000fd03 (0x4) IX[b]
    [24] -1 0 0x0000fe00 - 0x0000fe07 (0x8) IX[b]
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    [3] -1 0 0xfe02c000 - 0xfe02cfff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [4] -1 0 0xfe02d000 - 0xfe02dfff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [5] -1 0 0xfe02e000 - 0xfe02efff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [6] -1 0 0xfe02f000 - 0xfe02f1ff (0x200) MX[b]
    [7] -1 0 0xe0000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x0) MX[b]O
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    [18] -1 0 0x000001f0 - 0x000001f7 (0x8) IX[b]
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    [20] -1 0 0x0000fa00 - 0x0000fa0f (0x10) IX[b]
    [21] -1 0 0x0000fb00 - 0x0000fb03 (0x4) IX[b]
    [22] -1 0 0x0000fc00 - 0x0000fc07 (0x8) IX[b]
    [23] -1 0 0x0000fd00 - 0x0000fd03 (0x4) IX[b]
    [24] -1 0 0x0000fe00 - 0x0000fe07 (0x8) IX[b]
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    [3] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[b]
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    [5] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[b]
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    [6] -1 0 0xfe02b000 - 0xfe02b3ff (0x400) MX[b]
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    [8] -1 0 0xfe02d000 - 0xfe02dfff (0x1000) MX[b]
    [9] -1 0 0xfe02e000 - 0xfe02efff (0x1000) MX[b]
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    [19] -1 0 0x0000df00 - 0x0000dfff (0x100) IX[b]
    [20] -1 0 0x0000f800 - 0x0000f80f (0x10) IX[b]
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    [22] -1 0 0x000001f0 - 0x000001f7 (0x8) IX[b]
    [23] -1 0 0x000001f0 - 0x000001f0 (0x1) IX[b]
    [24] -1 0 0x000001f0 - 0x000001f7 (0x8) IX[b]
    [25] -1 0 0x00000500 - 0x0000050f (0x10) IX[b]
    [26] -1 0 0x0000fa00 - 0x0000fa0f (0x10) IX[b]
    [27] -1 0 0x0000fb00 - 0x0000fb03 (0x4) IX[b]
    [28] -1 0 0x0000fc00 - 0x0000fc07 (0x8) IX[b]
    [29] -1 0 0x0000fd00 - 0x0000fd03 (0x4) IX[b]
    [30] -1 0 0x0000fe00 - 0x0000fe07 (0x8) IX[b]
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