Jon Burchmore wrote: > > > If I decide to just try the VESA modes, is there some indication that my > > monitor is about to fry before it actually does? I've heard this process > > can > > take as little as a few seconds to burn your monitor up. Will it be obvious > > that something is terribly wrong? > > It depends. Some monitors will just display a horribly scrambled screen, and > won't get hurt at all. Some will go black, make a horrible *POP* and spew > smoke. There's no guarantee that you will hurt your monitor with a bad > ModeLine, but neither is there a guarantee that it will work. > > I always just immediately hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X server if the > screen doesn't look right on startup when experimenting with ModeLines. >
Plus yank the power to the monitor if Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't respond fast enough.
