kernel 2.4.22-1.2194 clicks monitor

[Jeff Vian]

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
>