> Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 14:31:16 +1100
>From: David Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: XWindows damaging my monitor?!
>
>OK. Would it cause lasting damage, or just interference? That is, I've
>taken the speakers away from the monitor and it seems to have made no
>change.
It may leave marks on your screen - what you need to do now is a 'degauss'.
Better quality monitors have a button or menu option to degauss the screen,
this should fix it. Lower quality monitors do a degauss on powerup, but not
as well. In this case the marks should fade over time.
>Sorry about all the questions...
That's why we're all here ;-)
>ps.
>You know what bothers me? Windows 95 does not need to know all this
>information when setting up the display? However, XFree wants to know
>everything except my shoe size!
Windows 95 actually needs more :-O. The thing is it's all encoded in the
monitor definition tables nicely for you. This works fine until you get a
monitor which 'isn't supported' - I defy anyone with an IQ of less than 1000
to build a custom .inf file for an unsupported monitor (well maybe a little
exaggerated).
>I know there's complexity associated with power, but couldn't there be a
>simpler layer (GUI) available for newbies. At the moment, I'd give
>anything to be able to configure this system via buttons and textboxes
>;-).
But what happens when there isn't a button for what you want? I want to
switch resolutions 'live' in '95 and my video driver don't do it. That
leaves me with two options - buy a new video card which can, or move to
Linux. No contest ;-)
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