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Before "multiscan"/"multisync" CRTs, there were fixed mode CRTs which would break in one way or the other if the incoming signal had the wrong timings. > My un
by dbttdft 4y ago
Before "multiscan"/"multisync" CRTs, there were fixed mode CRTs which would break in one way or the other if the incoming signal had the wrong timings.
> My understanding is that monitors and/or graphics cards/drivers would reject potentially harmful configurations.
It's done in the monitor.
- blarghyblarg 4y agoyep, 13 year old me had one of these around the first time I was using X. Way back when you had to write your config files by hand. One little oopsie, and that monitor had a line through it for the rest of its life.