On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 09:33:07AM +0000, Dieter wrote: > > I am guessing he wants to connect RGB out on the graphics card > > straight to the scart plug on the TV set, but have some sort added > > protection to prevent the card from tryring to drive resolutions and > > refresh rates the TV will not be able to handle. > > While monitors do have protection circuits, I'm not so sure about > > TVs :) > > You cannot depend on monitors having protection circuits. :-( > If a monitor does have a protection circuit you cannot depend on > it actually protecting the CRT. :-( > You cannot depend on firmware/software doing something sane. :-( > > Therefore I recommend that the board have a method to set and lock > down the mode in hardware. Jumpers and dip switches come to mind. > > For use with fixed-frequency monitors, or multi-sync monitors that > have a limited range, it would be very useful if the board could > drive the monitor with a fixed mode, even though the firmware > wants say [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Bah.
This is the same thing i keep on hearing any where else. Most recent example was the cvt modeline generator in X.org. Here some people maintained that pointing a reduced blanking mode at a CRT was harmful. This while the very same people didn't even have a CRT near them to test it on, this while i had (and still have) nothing but CRTs to test those modes on. And even the oldest and crappiest didn't complain one bit, let alone blow up and then burn down the house. It's 2006. Monitors can handle it. Other monitors have blown up already. Move on. Luc Verhaegen. _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
