From: farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) Subject: Re: Will X windows kill monitor? Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1993 04:26:41 GMT
chchen@stat (Ching-Hsiang Chen) writes:
>I installed Linux on my friend's 486 machine except X windows. He got a
>CTX 1560 15" monitor and it's quite tricky to set it up. Also, some nice
>gentleman warned me that he trashed his monitor (same model) once and he
>had to buy a new one. This makes me cautious and I stopped the installation
>of X windows for my friend (well, if his monitor is gone and I am the one
>typing the keyboard, this will be troublesome). Just curious, has anyone
>out there trashed his monitor when installing X windows?
That's a new one. I've never heard of such a thing.
It's not possible to hurt your monitor by displaying something with a
wrong config or something, is it?
Scott