[2765] in RedHat Linux List
Dolt-lummox newbie is destroying his system?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Tue Nov 5 11:43:21 1996
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 11:40:27 -0500
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
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Lance Cummings writes:
> Thanks to everyone (a whole bunch, lemmee tell ya) who gave
> me advice on how to stop the startx command from putting
> my system to sleep.
>
> Well, maybe I stumbled across something by accident. Then
> again, maybe I'm unknowingly destroying my system. My video
> card -- according to Gateway's "manual" is an ATI GX Mach 64.
> Now "GX" has gotta be Graphic Expression, right? Maybe not.
> All the GX options in configX give my system the heebie-jeebies.
> The one that works is ATI Pro Turbo Mach 64. And my Gateway
> monitor -- the not-made-by-Sony Vivitron -- turns out to be
> a Sony CPD-17SFII -- according to what works with Metro X.
>
> Does any of this seem strange to anyone -- least of all that
> my Metro X now pops up in perfect 1024 X 768, just like
> I wanted it to?
Nope,
I used the Mach64 XFree and/or Metro-X for a long time. Won't destroy
your system as long as you don't have the Vert-Horiz sincs set too
high.
-sen
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