From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 9 02:00:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA27498 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 02:00:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from cls.net (freeside.cls.de [192.129.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA27484 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 02:00:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.cls.net (Smail3.1.29.1) from allegro.lemis.de (192.109.197.134) with smtp id ; Tue, 9 Jan 96 10:00 GMT From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Reply-To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Received: (grog@localhost) by allegro.lemis.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA21892; Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:40:36 +0100 Message-Id: <199601091040.LAA21892@allegro.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Dual Monitor Systems... To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:40:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) In-Reply-To: <199601082116.WAA16563@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Jan 8, 96 10:16:34 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch writes: > > Don't worry about the flickering picture on your screen while the > machine is booting. The frequencies are way below the freq's your > monitor could grok, so it's simply a matter that you cannot recognize > anything. It doesn't hurt anyway. I know several people who are > using such a configuration. You've obviously never burnt out a monitor :-( Running monitors out of spec *does* damage monitors. It may not do too much harm for a brief period of time when booting, but what happens if you have a power fail in the middle of the night, and something hangs? In addition, even a brief period of time out of spec could burn out some monitors. *Do* worry. Greg