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Don't screw up your modelines lest you blow up your monitor! (I'm younger than the GGP poster here, but I was enough of a nerd in primary school that I got int
by ajdlinux 9y ago
Don't screw up your modelines lest you blow up your monitor!
(I'm younger than the GGP poster here, but I was enough of a nerd in primary school that I got into Linux at about the time that distro installers' XFree86 autoconfigurators got you most of the way but still had to have a manual modeline configuration option in the advanced settings...)
- dfox 9y agoFor a long time I believed that the warning about blowing up monitors by using wrong video mode was nonsense, until I had blown one (12" mono CRT, 1024x768@60 caused quite loud bang)