[vox-tech] 10 year old monitor finally died

[Jonathan Stickel]

Jimbo wrote:
> I knew it was going but thought I had a little bit more time.  Bought 
> new monitor (Samsung syncmaster 203b)  and am worried about starting 
> debian on old monitor settings.  Will things auto detect?  How bout the 
> nvidia video card I just installed?
> 
> If no auto detect can I edit some files w/o booting into kde first?  I 
> do know what the horizontal and vertical refresh rates are so I'm not 
> going into this blind.
> 

Since I've been using Linux (~2002), I've not seen a monitor go up in 
smoke due to incorrect settings.  Maybe some old-school linuxers can 
give some horror stories, but I don't think you have much risk in just 
trying out your new monitor with your old settings.  Then you can make 
adjustments by editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

> I would usually just wipe out my hard drive 
<snip>

Yikes!  Talk about using a hammer when a jeweler's screwdriver is all 
that's needed!

Regards,
Jonathan