Re: [gentoo-user] Switched monitors, having resolution problems

[Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx>]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 07:02:40 +0200
"Vlad Dogaru" <ddvlad@gmail.com> wrote:


> I'll add this to the list of things I learned today. Apologies for the
> inconvenience.
no inconvenience here, but others on the mailinglist have no doubt
learned as well .. so thanks for the convenience ; )

> I am now using a VESA-compatible modeline for 1280x1024@75 (not sure
> about the last one). I just pasted it from ddcxinfo-knoppix, knowing
> the monitor would work with these settings.
that looks good. the @75 is just part of the arbitrary modeline name,
but actually refers to the refresh rate being used - a nice, fliker
free 75Hz (or kHz, whichever it is i can't rememver)
> One more question, though. If I switch back to my older, smaller
> monitor and forget to change the modeline, will it get fried? I seem
> to see this warning quite often.
I have seen that warning too, but I haven't yet been able to actually
break a monitor like that.  I think the current technology (circa early
to mid 90s and up) no longer has this problem.  However, don't take it
from me as fact, but a guess correlating with the experiences I have
had.  Usually, newer monitors simply show an 'out of range' box on the
screen, and older ones show an image composed entirely of quickly
waving gray black and white horizontal lines; the monitor in this case
has always happily performed afterwords just fine at supported
resolutions.  

there is one thing i would mention though.  You know how as monitors
wear out they get blurrier and blurrer, and image quality decreases?
Well, setting the refresh rate too high on some older, cheaper
monitors seems to result in a much accellerated blurification process.
> Thanks for the help,
> Vlad
any time. 
-dan
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