Re: [expert] Fixed frequency monitor

[Jay Summet for [EMAIL PROTECTED]]

On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Marco Fioretti wrote:

> 1) HARDWARE:  I know I can blow the monitor doing this,
>               but what about the video card and other PC
>               parts? Is there any possibility that I
>               permanently damage anything INTO the PC case
>               while playing with this?

Yes. It is possible to blow the video card.  Nothing TOO spectacular,
shouldn't hurt other components, but the video card will stop working.
I've done this myself on a DOS system using a Sun Monitor. I expect that
the OS diffrence (DOS/Linux) won't matter.  However, it's not easy, I
fiddled with it for a long time before doing this.....


> 4) TEXT MODE: I'm almost sure this is not possible, but let's
>               ask: Is there any way to have mandrake also run
>               without X windows, text mode only, on such a
>               combination of video card and monitor
>               (maybe like having the 640x480 mode or whatever it is
>               appear only on one fraction of the screen?)

The card I had came with (ms-Dos) software to change the settings for the
text display modes as well (basically, a modeline for text mode) and I was
able to get text mode working in Dos without much trouble. However, I
don't know of anything in Linux that will allow you to change the card
settings for text mode.

Jay Summet