From: schweika@genesis.infosun (Andreas Schweikardt) Subject: Re: Will X windows kill monitor? Date: 15 Mar 1993 05:45:53 GMT
In article 12715@ucsu.Colorado.EDU, farrow@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (J. Scott Farrow) writes:
>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
>--
It isn't possible with MultiSync monitor, but if you have none it is quite
possible to trash it.
BTW: Does anyone know the right values for NEC2A monitor & TSENG 3000