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juiceme is offline juiceme
2020-03-24 , 22:16
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Originally Posted by teroyk View Post
I remember he had some problems with monitor information to X-window, but at last he get it works with some moire-effect. I think total installation time was about 8 hours.
Yes; originally X was a real beast to get working correctly; there were zillion different graphics cards, each requiring a specific driver to be compiled and crazy amount of tweaking modelines before ever getting a stable picture on the tube

I remember some years later I got hold of a truckload of a whopping 21" monster tubes, real Trinitron stuff which were offed from a city council IT department. The problem, they were all workstation tubes with nonstandard refresh rate and sync-on-green!
The solution; get Matrox cards that can be hacked to produce S-O-G and high enough refresh rate to feed the beasts. Then experiment with X settings until a stable picture emerged... I tweaked maybe half-a-dozen of the cards for my friends to go with the tubes.


Originally Posted by teroyk View Post
And after that I didn't liked Linux, I only think that it will have more future than Windows
And you were correct in that; currently the installed base of linux-derived OS'es owerhelms all other OS'es by decades I think!
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