Literally smoking? =)
how old is the monitor by the way?
Mhac Janapin wrote:
Let me tell you my experience about using Knoppix for detection.
(Forget the wheel mouse for the meantime *lol*)
I used Knoppix one time to detect my refresh rates for my monitor. I
have just installed Fedora and the resolution is just *ugly*. I booted
off Knoppix,
saved the relevant lines in XF86Config. Logged off. Reboot to Fedora
and replaced the relevant lines in my Fedora's XF86Config. Restarted
X. In 3 minute's time, my monitor was smoking. :( ...and the junk in
our storeroom increased by 1.
I can't explain what happened. I just told my boss that the sunlight
overheated it. :) Same machine. Same hardware. Different Distros.
Dangerous. :)
my generic solution to things like this is to use knoppix to
detect everything, then use the knoppix settings to tell my
real linux (mandrake) how to detect and configure everything.
Just curious, but why aren't the major distros using the knoppix
autodetect scripts? I believe this will be a big win when used by
(say) the Debian Sarge installer.
I guess, different distros have a different way of doing things. I
just leave it that way... :)
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