On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 11:56:28PM +0300, Boaz Rymland wrote:
> 1. All along the Xfree doc's warnings are scattered regarding possible
> actual physical damage to monitors caused by wrong setup. I'm *not* an
> expert on this subject and anyway - I take those warnings seriously... .
All new monitors, and many of the old ones, simply shut off when given
an out-of-bounds setup and will not show anything. Pressing
Ctrl-Alt-F1 returns it back to console and back to text mode. I
haven't yet encountered a monitor that doesn't do it. Probably the
*really* old ones (from ten years ago?) could be damaged, but all the
new stuff can be played with safely.
(Of course I don't guarantee anything, I'm just telling about my
experience. If you do burn a monitor because of what I wrote, I'm
sorry, but that's all.)
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