On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 22:07 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 31 December 2006 17:19, Ric Moore wrote: > >> On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 20:39 +0800, Chong Yu Meng wrote: > >>> On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 09:15 -0800, alan wrote: > >>>> There is a modeline generation utility, but I cannot remember the > >>>> name of it. (My brain is still booting this morning.) > >>> xvidtune? > >> Be careful as hell with xvidtune. It'll do whatever you merrily tell it > >> to do. I blew the flyback out of a beautiful multisync back when a 15" > >> model cost some large. I drove it just a teeny tiny itsy bitsy too much. > >> ZING! <puff of smoke> That was a CRT monitor, BTW. I destroyed it > >> dinking with it and xvidtune, cause I didn't know exactly what I was > >> doing. That was one sad day. Ric > > > > Your list resident C.E.T. speaks: > > > > You didn't drive it too hard Ric, you drove it too slow, specifically the > > horizontal rate. The design of an h-sweep circuit is a rather large > > balancing act, with the inductance of the sweep transformer often at the > > ragged edge of a saturated core when running at the usual lower end of a > > vga monitors range of 31 kilohertz. <snip> This was so good I saved it twice! Thanks for the education, Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
