RE: Help - X meets my OLD monitor

["Jon Burchmore" <burch@offline.org>]

> If I decide to just try the VESA modes, is there some indication that my
> monitor is about to fry before it actually does?  I've heard this process can
> take as little as a few seconds to burn your monitor up.  Will it be obvious
> that something is terribly wrong?

It depends.  Some monitors will just display a horribly scrambled screen, and
won't get hurt at all.  Some will go black, make a horrible *POP* and spew 
smoke.  There's no guarantee that you will hurt your monitor with a bad
ModeLine, but neither is there a guarantee that it will work.

I always just immediately hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server if the
screen doesn't look right on startup when experimenting with ModeLines.

> >  ModeLine  "800x600"    36      800  824  896 1024    600  601  603  625

I would try the above ModeLine first.  I would be surprised if it hurts your
monitor.

-Jon Burchmore