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Not the installation strictly speaking, but my most "funny" fuckup was setting up xfree86. There was a configuration for crt monitor scan frequency that you had to setup. I messed up something and the monitor started to squeel like crazy and quickly hit hard reset in panic.
The monitor didn't die, but it had a slight high pitch noise to it after.
I know little about crt because I was born in 2000. Can you explain why did the monitor started to make scary sounds?
I know that crt monitors didn't have any method to report the supported frequency, aside from more recent models, correct?
A good starting point for a wikipedia rabbit hole covering the software aspects on how to drive a display: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFree86_Modeline