Quoting Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > this isn't the whole story. you can smoke your monitor.
1. Not an LCD panel. Very old tube monitors would be at risk. 2. That advice to use correct HorizSync and VertRefresh values (if you can look them up) is excellent and well stated, but I'm pretty sure all monitors made since around 1990 have included protection circuitry. Fried monitor were a problem for a while after the Sony MultiSync series and imitators took over the market, because they accustomed people to thinking that monitors would just cope with any analogue video signal, syncronising on it if within the monitor's scanning range, and cutting out if outside that range. Problem was, the older monitors didn't do that. Either they accepted only one frequency vert/horiz pair or a limited number of such pairs as "detents", but they lacked the protection circuitry that prevents (to my knowledge) all modern monitors from trying to grasp beyond their reach. But definitely, specifying HorizSync and VertRefresh correctly in the first place remains a good idea. I've also not seen XFree86 fail in recent years to correctly probe the amount of video RAM, so in my experience it's best not to specify a number without a very compelling reason. -- Cheers, "Don't use Outlook. Outlook is really just a security Rick Moen hole with a small e-mail client attached to it." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Brian Trosko in r.a.sf.w.r-j _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
