Hello SuSE people, Seeking some advice here. My lcd monitor is dying. In looking for a replacement I am wondering if I should go wide screen. Is there any problem with making it display properly? Manually configuring files? Running an nvidia fx5700 video card. Bob S -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello SuSE people,
Seeking some advice here. My lcd monitor is dying. In looking for a replacement I am wondering if I should go wide screen. Is there any problem with making it display properly? Manually configuring files? Running an nvidia fx5700 video card.
I'd hate to have to go back to an old square one now. The widescreen is nice :-) I've not had any problems with setting up the resolutions on several different brands of widescreens. In 100% of the cases they were simply autodetected by either sax2 or nvidia-config (depending on the system setup/drivers used etc.). On a clean install, they've also all "just worked" and were automagically set up to run at the default max resolution without me having to do anything out of the ordinary. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Clayton wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Seeking some advice here. My lcd monitor is dying. In looking for a replacement I am wondering if I should go wide screen. Is there any problem with making it display properly? Manually configuring files? Running an nvidia fx5700 video card.
I'd hate to have to go back to an old square one now. The widescreen is nice :-)
I have a 42" HDTV with a computer monitor input. I haven't tried it as a monitor yet, but perhaps I should. Of course, it's a bit big to put on my desk. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
James Knott wrote:
I have a 42" HDTV with a computer monitor input. I haven't tried it as a monitor yet, but perhaps I should. Of course, it's a bit big to put on my desk. ;-)
You obviously haven't got a big enough desk :) Don't forget to leave room for your feet and a coffee mug. Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 04:40:37 am James Knott wrote:
I have a 42" HDTV with a computer monitor input. I haven't tried it as a monitor yet, but perhaps I should. Of course, it's a bit big to put on my desk. ;-)
Go for it! I have a 50" and use it to watch motorcycle races all the time. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Seeking some advice here. My lcd monitor is dying. In looking for a replacement I am wondering if I should go wide screen. Is there any problem with making it display properly? Manually configuring files? Running an nvidia fx5700 video card.
Bob S
Check out the BenQ *E2200HD* 22" HD LCD monitor from TigerDirect.ca 1920x1080 For $229.00 CDN -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Roman B. wrote:
Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Seeking some advice here. My lcd monitor is dying. In looking for a replacement I am wondering if I should go wide screen. Is there any problem with making it display properly? Manually configuring files? Running an nvidia fx5700 video card.
Bob S
Check out the BenQ *E2200HD* 22" HD LCD monitor from TigerDirect.ca
1920x1080
For $229.00 CDN
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On or about Tuesday 26 May 2009 at approximately 16:15:06 Bob S composed:
Hello SuSE people,
Seeking some advice here. My lcd monitor is dying. In looking for a replacement I am wondering if I should go wide screen. Is there any problem with making it display properly? Manually configuring files? Running an nvidia fx5700 video card.
Bob S
Bob, I have an old Dell Dimension (PIII 866) with an NVidia FX5700 Ultra that works perfectly with an Acer 22" widescreen at 1680x1050 resolution. Fantastic use of older hardware. The 5700 drives the display just fine (and is actually faster than the recent NVidia 8400GT) Widescreen is definitely the way to go. The additional screen realestate is fantastic. Even working from a framebuffer console (runlevel 3) with frame buffer resolution set to 1280x1024 (vga=0x31a) it works great. With any X desktop, the NVidia driver will give you native 1680x1050 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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