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On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 07:02:40 +0200 |
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"Vlad Dogaru" <ddvlad@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'll add this to the list of things I learned today. Apologies for the |
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> inconvenience. |
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no inconvenience here, but others on the mailinglist have no doubt |
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learned as well .. so thanks for the convenience ; ) |
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> I am now using a VESA-compatible modeline for 1280x1024@75 (not sure |
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> about the last one). I just pasted it from ddcxinfo-knoppix, knowing |
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> the monitor would work with these settings. |
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that looks good. the @75 is just part of the arbitrary modeline name, |
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but actually refers to the refresh rate being used - a nice, fliker |
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free 75Hz (or kHz, whichever it is i can't rememver) |
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> One more question, though. If I switch back to my older, smaller |
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> monitor and forget to change the modeline, will it get fried? I seem |
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> to see this warning quite often. |
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I have seen that warning too, but I haven't yet been able to actually |
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break a monitor like that. I think the current technology (circa early |
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to mid 90s and up) no longer has this problem. However, don't take it |
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from me as fact, but a guess correlating with the experiences I have |
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had. Usually, newer monitors simply show an 'out of range' box on the |
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screen, and older ones show an image composed entirely of quickly |
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waving gray black and white horizontal lines; the monitor in this case |
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has always happily performed afterwords just fine at supported |
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resolutions. |
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there is one thing i would mention though. You know how as monitors |
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wear out they get blurrier and blurrer, and image quality decreases? |
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Well, setting the refresh rate too high on some older, cheaper |
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monitors seems to result in a much accellerated blurification process. |
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> Thanks for the help, |
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> Vlad |
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any time. |
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-dan |
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