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From: David Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: XWindows damaging my monitor?!


>You know what bothers me?  Windows 95 does not need to know all this
>information when setting up the display?  However, XFree wants to know
>everything except my shoe size!


Actually, it does need to know these things.  But if it can't find them
(either via Plug and Play, or via you picking the right monitor from the
list) it'll make lowest-common-denominator guesses.

If you present it with a sufficiently weird monitor, those guesses might
start a fire.



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