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I killed my monitor!!

[oops! I forgot to attach the XF86Config file in question.]
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Yes its true! My ADI MicroScan 6P 19" monitor just died on me last
night. It had been making a lot of clicking/cracking noises over the
past couple of weeks each accompanied by a slight flicker/bounce/warp in
the image. But last night it was just too much and there was a really,
really loud click/crack noise and the picture went blank. The ADI is at
a repair shop right now (authorized ADI repair center) and luckily I was
able to get a loaner from them.

I am just wondering if this happened because of me misconfiguring
XF86. My video card is a Matrox Millennium G200 8MB. The ADI's hsync is
30-94 KHz, and its vsync is 48-160 Hz. In the XF86config program, I
selected the monitor type as:

   8  31.5 - 64.3; Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz

and I entered its vsync as 50-100 since it falls within the ADI's
specs.

I am attaching to this email the XF86Config file that I have used with
this ADI monitor under Debian-2.1 since early September. I'd like
someone to tell me if I entered/selected some incorrect configuration
value for XF86 that might have possibly contributed to my monitor
getting toasted. I am pretty sure that I selected my monitor as "31.5 -
64.3; Monitor that can do 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz" but I can't remember!!

Also, I never had this clicking and image flicker problem under either
WindowsNT or RedHat5.2 with this same hardware, although to be fair I
have been almost exclusively using Debian since I first installed it in
early September, and have been rarely booting into either Window[NT|95]
or RH-5.2. I diffed the XF86Config file that I have on RedHat-5.2 and it
seems to have fewer ModeLine lines even though for RH's XF86 config I
selected the same type of generic monitor. And I don't seem to recall
having that clicking problem under RedHat-5.2.

Anyways, I'd appreciate any information on this.

PS : I am running the XFree-3.3.3.1-2 from NetGod's site. Sorry for the
big attachment!!

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Salman Ahmed
ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com


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Salman Ahmed
ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com
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