[vox-tech] 10 year old monitor finally died

[Jim George]

I turned it on thinking the same thing but wound up with another problem.  My 
xserver wouldn't load because of my new video card.

I did however googled and found out that I could dpkg my xfree86-4 something 
file.  I did that and boom! I now have a desktop worth bragging about.

Aahh if I could just get my wifi to auto and my nvidia card to go 3d I would 
be in hog heaven.

On Monday 04 September 2006 02:40 pm, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> 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
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