Hmm.. you don't have to worry about blown monitors if you have a
relatively new one. IF the monitor gets a signal it doesn't like, it
just switches off.....so I guess it's ok to play around.
But!...don't blame me if your monitor goes up in smoke, I have never
seen any such exiting thing (yet)..even though I've fiddled around a
lot.
Ciao
SOj.
Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
>
> Hey
>
> You don't need to reboot your machine to take chages in effect. You need to come
> out of X and restart it.
>
> Secondly merely putting those resolution may not work if proper HSync and VSync
> frequencies for the monitor are not entered(in the same /etc/X11/XF86Config
> only). If nothing, wrong frequencies can *blow* your monitor. So be careful
> while you are fiddling with them. If monitor starts flashing, the immediately
> press ctrl+alt+backspace to kill X. If you wait there too long, you may loose
> your monitor...
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