> If I decide to just try the VESA modes, is there some indication that my > monitor is about to fry before it actually does? I've heard this process can > take as little as a few seconds to burn your monitor up. Will it be obvious > that something is terribly wrong?
It depends. Some monitors will just display a horribly scrambled screen, and won't get hurt at all. Some will go black, make a horrible *POP* and spew smoke. There's no guarantee that you will hurt your monitor with a bad ModeLine, but neither is there a guarantee that it will work. I always just immediately hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server if the screen doesn't look right on startup when experimenting with ModeLines. > > ModeLine "800x600" 36 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 I would try the above ModeLine first. I would be surprised if it hurts your monitor. -Jon Burchmore
