From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 13 16:30:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA27907 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 16:30:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA27889 for ; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 16:30:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 0xh1wk-0006eV-00; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 17:30:14 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.8.8/8.8.3) with ESMTP id RAA01362; Sat, 13 Dec 1997 17:31:17 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199712140031.RAA01362@harmony.village.org> To: Chuck Robey Subject: Re: [jgrosch@mooseriver.com: Re: Beginning SPARC port] Cc: Greg Lehey , sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 13 Dec 1997 19:20:23 EST." References: Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 17:31:17 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message Chuck Robey writes: : Dangerous to give out that advice, Greg. Many older Sun monitors were : single frequency monitors, and while Xfree86 could be prpogrammed to work : with them, during boot, when the monitors are in 640X400, they just can't : handle that at all, and will just burn out while tring to get to X11 mode. That's one reason that I always tell people in my "Howto" page to turn off the monitor while not in use and during reboot.... The Sony monitor that I've been using for years didn't seem to care much about being in text mode for periods of time up to 3 days (long weekend, power hit at the start...). Your milage may vary, however. Warner