Re: [vox-tech] 10 year old monitor finally died

2006-09-05 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Jonathan Stickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Since I've been using Linux (~2002), I've not seen a monitor go up in smoke due to incorrect settings. Maybe some old-school linuxers can give some horror stories, but I don't think you have much risk in just trying out your new monitor with

Re: [vox-tech] 10 year old monitor finally died

2006-09-05 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Jimbo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I knew it was going but thought I had a little bit more time. Bought new monitor (Samsung syncmaster 203b) and am worried about starting debian on old monitor settings. Will things auto detect? Usually, sure. X11 queries each individual monitor for its

Re: [vox-tech] 10 year old monitor finally died

2006-09-04 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Jimbo wrote: I knew it was going but thought I had a little bit more time. Bought new monitor (Samsung syncmaster 203b) and am worried about starting debian on old monitor settings. Will things auto detect? How bout the nvidia video card I just installed? If no auto detect can I edit

Re: [vox-tech] 10 year old monitor finally died

2006-09-04 Thread Ken Bloom
On Monday 04 September 2006 16:40, Jonathan Stickel wrote: Jimbo wrote: I knew it was going but thought I had a little bit more time. Bought new monitor (Samsung syncmaster 203b) and am worried about starting debian on old monitor settings. Will things auto detect? How bout the nvidia

Re: [vox-tech] 10 year old monitor finally died

2006-09-04 Thread Jim George
I turned it on thinking the same thing but wound up with another problem. My xserver wouldn't load because of my new video card. I did however googled and found out that I could dpkg my xfree86-4 something file. I did that and boom! I now have a desktop worth bragging about. Aahh if I could

[vox-tech] 10 year old monitor finally died

2006-09-03 Thread Jimbo
I knew it was going but thought I had a little bit more time. Bought new monitor (Samsung syncmaster 203b) and am worried about starting debian on old monitor settings. Will things auto detect? How bout the nvidia video card I just installed? If no auto detect can I edit some files w/o