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Re: [LIP] X config w/o Monitor burned?



On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Eli Marmor wrote:

> Did anybody see ever a screen damage because of wrong config ???
> Yes, I know this bullshit for years. It was written even before
> XFree. But it seems to be a Kasta"ch.

surprise... I actually saw a nice 21" that burned out it's tube with a
frequency that was too high, because of a human error... and you'd expect
those things should have some kind of a protection circuit.

it IS possible, but only with EXTREME numbers. standard VGA configurations
never go below 45 or above 72 Hz, so why worry?

Are we gurus or newbies? we don't use weird numbers!

with all this said, I would like to make you all aware of the fact that RH
has Xconfigurator, which is GPL, and you can use it EVEN if you don't
install RH...

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