On Wed 21 Apr 04, 1:34 PM, Jonathan McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Pete, > > > eek. > > > > this isn't the whole story. you can smoke your monitor. X won't use a > > resolution that needs a higher dot-clock than your video card can > > provide. it won't use a bit depth that needs more video ram than your > > card can supply. > > > > but lying about HorizSync and VertRefresh can smoke your monitor. do > > NOT blindly tell X that your monitor can do a vsync of 100 if it can't > > do a vsync of 100. > > Jennifer had already established that she was using an LCD monitor. > AFAIK, CRTs are the only ones that you have to worry about frying with > bad h/vsychs. Therefore, getting the h/vsynch variable out of the mix by > just telling XFree to use a nice, big range for both seemed to be a > decently simplifying thing to do. Did I make some wrong assumptions? > > -jam
sorry jam, i didn't read that. in fact, i haven't done a good job reading at all. i first responded to her in private telling her to look at linux for laptops because i didn't see the word "desktop". the symptom she described sounds exactly what happens on a laptop with an unsupported video chipset. ulp! my apologies... pete -- Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein GPG Instructions: http://www.dirac.org/linux/gpg GPG Fingerprint: B9F1 6CF3 47C4 7CD8 D33E 70A9 A3B9 1945 67EA 951D _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
