Re: External screen

Dne, 31. 03. 2011 16:17:57 je Johann Spies napisal(a):

I have a Dell Latitute E6410 and have a mixture of Testing and Sid on it.
Recently I got an external Dell flatscreen.

It happened several times now that when I connect the screen to my computer
while it is running, it freezes and I have to push the power button two
switch if off.

You actually connect the screen *while* the computer is running?
Unmless some modern Plug'n'Pray has been invented while I've been sleeping, the last I remember, by doing that you could fry your monitor, or your computer, or both.
I guess that's still valid -- for the VGA port/connector at least?

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I have an old NEC 17in monitor that I've plugged in to running systems repeatedly, for years with no ill effects and in all my years of bring a geekmonkey, I've never actually heard of that, in fact I (and several friends) was(/were) expressly taught that this behavior is safe and acceptable (It would be no different from a KVM switching one device off to activate another (by device I mean a monitor.) Aside from some bazaar electrical issue with improperly grounded and protected devices that should be perfectly safe as your not providing power of VGA/DVI/HDMI, so the electrical output would be easily shielded to prevent such things .... Just my $0.02 (I am not an electrician, just basing this on ~20 yrs of experience.)

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