On 07/21/2011 01:12 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/07/21 10:30 (GMT+0300) Stan Goodman composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
Xorg.0.log has no EDID block, which means it's missing or broken.
This is not a new monitor. I bought it when LCD monitors were still quite novel. Perhaps the necessity for a monitor to send its biography to its host hadn't yet been realized.
One LCD, rather old, built January 2003, but purchased by me off eBay only this year, that I use on a 24/7 machine has good EDID, which really wasn't that new even back then. Is yours even older? It might well be older, who remembers? I know it was when I was using OS/2, but that doesn't mean anything.
But surely currently manufactures monitors would be certain to support current standards.
Maybe what I really need is a new monitor. Except that they no longer come with a 4x3 aspect ratio, which is a bummer.
I too don't like TVs sold as puter displays. Less wide 16:10 models were still about last I looked, just less common than baby TVs.
Yours wasn't 4:3 either. 1280x1024 is 5:4, which still exists online, though uncommonly in retail stores: http://tinyurl.com/3lrubvu Yes. What I meant was that the only ones I see anymore are the wide screen kind. The merchant tells me that this is a strategic decision necessitated by gamers; they are ALL gamers apparently.
4:3 still can be had in 1600x1200 http://tinyurl.com/43yxfgz while to replace what I'm using to write this with ATM would require http://www.provantage.com/lg-electronics-l2000ce~7LGEL04K.htm or equivalent, rather less common but not yet dead. This, of course, is a much smaller market than the US, and one wouldn't expect importers to bring every possible sort of monitors, especially when the the market only wants wide screens.
Additional example: I am supposed to take a buffered 325mg aspirin tablet every morning. There is only one (1), count 'em, one importer that brings aspirin, and the local Teva Pharmaceuticals (the worlds largest manufacturer of generic pharmaceuticals) doesn't make aspirin. The importer decided, for his own convenience apparently, that he doesn't want to bother with large aspirin tablets. I now have to find a pharmacy or individual in Europe or the US to ship aspirin to me. Shameful, isn't it? Given that this is not an exotic substance. Monitors are just the tip of the iceberg.
I can't swap, end for end or otherwise; there is no connector at the monitor end, it's connected permanently.
I'm not sure I can recall ever seeing any LCD lacking separable cords, but as you say, yours is old.
Yes, I have a live Ubuntu 8.
No Sandy Bridge support in anything so old. To get something other than 1024x768 or worse you'd need something released this year, preferably post-11.4. POST 11.4? Is current Fedora new enough?
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