On Wednesday 03 January 2007 21:37, Ric Moore wrote: >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 > What, one for each eye? :-) Chuckle. Thanks for the flowers Ric. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
