On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 07:02:40 +0200 "Vlad Dogaru" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll add this to the list of things I learned today. Apologies for the > inconvenience. no inconvenience here, but others on the mailinglist have no doubt learned as well .. so thanks for the convenience ; ) > I am now using a VESA-compatible modeline for [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not sure > about the last one). I just pasted it from ddcxinfo-knoppix, knowing > the monitor would work with these settings. that looks good. the @75 is just part of the arbitrary modeline name, but actually refers to the refresh rate being used - a nice, fliker free 75Hz (or kHz, whichever it is i can't rememver) > One more question, though. If I switch back to my older, smaller > monitor and forget to change the modeline, will it get fried? I seem > to see this warning quite often. I have seen that warning too, but I haven't yet been able to actually break a monitor like that. I think the current technology (circa early to mid 90s and up) no longer has this problem. However, don't take it from me as fact, but a guess correlating with the experiences I have had. Usually, newer monitors simply show an 'out of range' box on the screen, and older ones show an image composed entirely of quickly waving gray black and white horizontal lines; the monitor in this case has always happily performed afterwords just fine at supported resolutions. there is one thing i would mention though. You know how as monitors wear out they get blurrier and blurrer, and image quality decreases? Well, setting the refresh rate too high on some older, cheaper monitors seems to result in a much accellerated blurification process. > Thanks for the help, > Vlad any time. -dan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
