Dot pitch on a crt might make the image look bad (trying to draw onto the shadow mask) but I doubt it would damage it.
Setting an invalid dot clock could damage some crts. But most of the modern (read from mid 90s on) would just go to the power save mode when they got a clock they couldn’t use. The warning did still remain on the xfree86 configuration guides though.
loved the 90’s slackware era “oops i forgot to burn this with network drivers… and it was my only machine.”
do u remember when they warned you if you got the dot pitch setting wrong for your CRT it could destroy it? I was like wtf?
Are you sure it was dot pitch and not dot clock?
Dot pitch on a crt might make the image look bad (trying to draw onto the shadow mask) but I doubt it would damage it.
Setting an invalid dot clock could damage some crts. But most of the modern (read from mid 90s on) would just go to the power save mode when they got a clock they couldn’t use. The warning did still remain on the xfree86 configuration guides though.
Showing my age perhaps.
That was a plot point in Cryptonomicon. And yeah the XFree86 docs mentioned it too…
I had to hoof it to a friends house with floppies a few times after breaking my system. Good times.