kernel 2.4.22-1.2194 clicks monitor

[William Hooper]

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.

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

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William Hooper