Rapidweather
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Posted: Feb. 28 2004,00:47 |
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I find that DSL is very gentle on monitors & video cards, compared to a main
distro such as Mandrake or Redhat, where one can edit the /etc/XF86Config file, and ask the machine to use a horizontal or vertical refresh rate that could in fact harm the machine.
We are not allowed to tinker with that in DSL, so are protected from that sort of thing.
With modern monitors, impossible refresh rates are blocked anyway.
I have worked with Slackware, Debian, SuSE, Mandrake, Redhat, and others,
and have tweaked the /etc/XF86Config file to try and get a better display, or
whatever. The video cards often won't support some resolutions, but I have not
had a card go bad during these experiments. I did have an S3 Trio 64V+ go bad once, in Windows 98, but it was just time for that card, not the fault of the OS.
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No one should, in my opinion, be deterred from using DSL for fear of ruining a
video card. That is not to say that it is impossible for a card to go bad at the same time that DSL is running, or for that matter, any other Linux or Windows OS.
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I have used DSL on a machine with XP pro, and things work fine. Trick on a LCD monitor is to use this knoppix cheatcode:
boot: knoppix vga=normal
Otherwise you get a blank screen in DSL. (You can reboot into Windows XP, and all is fine)
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