Re: Help - X meets my OLD monitor
Jon Burchmore wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
Plus yank the power to the monitor if Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't respond
fast enough.
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