From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 15:37:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA12898 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:37:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA12868 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 15:37:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id AAA16610 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:36:41 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id AAA01464 for hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 00:36:41 +0100 Received: (uucp@localhost) by fasterix.frmug.fr.net (8.6.11/fasterix-941011) with UUCP id XAA26239 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 23:34:44 +0100 Received: (from regnauld@localhost) by tetard.frmug.fr.net (8.7.3/8.7.3/tetard-uucp-2.7) id NAA03439 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Jan 1996 13:08:36 +0100 (MET) From: Philippe Regnauld Message-Id: <199601101208.NAA03439@tetard.frmug.fr.net> Subject: Re: Dual Monitor Systems... To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 13:08:36 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <199601091040.LAA21892@allegro.lemis.de> from "Greg Lehey" at Jan 9, 96 11:40:36 am X-rene: Tu dois pas les avoir perdues, normalement. X-wing-fighter: et puis X-men, X-open, X-ta-mere... X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey écrit / writes: > > J Wunsch writes: > You've obviously never burnt out a monitor :-( > > Running monitors out of spec *does* damage monitors. It may not do That is also what I thought -- out-of-sync ranges (even too low) while not putting any stress on the sync circuits, can strain OTHER components behind it, as they try to pickup a correct signal (i.e. horiz et vert sweep), thus making them work ABOVE their specs. Regarding XInside and two monitors, could you give more info ? (What displays - VGA/VGA?, how does syscons/pcvt behave?) -- Phil -- - [ regnauld@tetard.frmug.fr.net / +48.8N+2.3E / +33 1 4507 9391 / Sol 3 ] - - [ regnauld@freenix.fr / FreeBSD 2.x / ] - "Le schtroumpf est à l'homme ce que le bleu est au billard" - F.Berjon