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It's not on that wikipedia page but in older Linux desktops using XFree86 windows system (before X.Org) there were always warnings that certain monitor settings
by kwijibob 4y ago
It's not on that wikipedia page but in older Linux desktops using XFree86 windows system (before X.Org) there were always warnings that certain monitor settings could break your monitor hardware permanently.
I was always fearful of breaking an expensive fat monitor.
- voxadam 4y agoIt was absolutely possible to fry old fixed-frequency monitors by specifying an improper HorizSync in your XF86Config.[0] Fortunately, for most of us fixed-frequency CRTs had been largely replaced by more modern multisync monitors[1] before we were out of diapers. [0] https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6614/can-the-wrong-sync-frequency-really-destroy-a-crt-monitor https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/6614/can-... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisync_monitor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multisync_monitor