As the owner of a NVidia card, whose evil proprietary driver won't work
with rivafb, but would possibly work with vesafb (I see mixed messages
on usenet about this), I have the following question:

will the new edid-functionality that is currently in heavy development
allow linux (somewhere in the future) to set a vertical refresh frequency
with vesafb? I did notice that this Ti500 card has a VESA/VBE 3.0
compatible BIOS, so it should be possible.

Yes. Also long as your monitor supports EDID correctly. I tested it on my 
laptop and the data was botched :-(



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