Really? I didn’t know it was possible. How’s that happened?
English9•1 year ago
X11 used to require very cumbersome MANUAL configuration, where you would specify the exact parameters of your keyboard, mouse, monitor, and other peripherals. If you accidentally ended up overclocking your monitor it would melt. For at least a decade, it has been able to run with no configuration file at all, but in the 90s/early 2000s you had to produce a unique >75 line xorg.conf file for your specific hardware.
So I’m not the only one who fried a monitor trying to get X11 working…
Really? I didn’t know it was possible. How’s that happened?
X11 used to require very cumbersome MANUAL configuration, where you would specify the exact parameters of your keyboard, mouse, monitor, and other peripherals. If you accidentally ended up overclocking your monitor it would melt. For at least a decade, it has been able to run with no configuration file at all, but in the 90s/early 2000s you had to produce a unique >75 line xorg.conf file for your specific hardware.
Thanks, that’s terrifying and I’m glad that I never had to do it
God that brings back memories
Oh no, for sure! I did it with Debian in '98-99.
That certainly makes me feel better for letting the Magic Smoke out.