On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 07:31, William Hooper wrote: > Jeff Vian said: > [snip] > > In the early stages of developing Linux and X I heard horror stories of > > people doing so, but I AFAICT that was more hype and urban legend than > > actual problems. I have never met anyone who claims to have had that > > happen to them personally. > Notice that I said "AFAICT that was more hype and urban legend than actual problems". I believe there was much more scare factor involved in those stories than actually happened. (Which may be a good thing since users tended to be more conservative in doing the configs with these stories floating around) While the problem had a basis in fact, the stories were greatly exaggerated about the extent of the effect. As I previously stated, I have never met anyone who actually was affected. I am aware that an incorrectly configured setup can harm a monitor. I also stated that the auto config tools that are in the current distros tend to eliminate this problem. > It is more than urban legend. > > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg01634.html > > > With modern monitors and video cards and especially with the > > configuration software available now, it is very hard to even come close to > > setting up a server config that might damage a monitor when trying to > > start up. > > The biggest factor is that newer monitors have built in protection. > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg01789.html > > -- > William Hooper >
