On Monday 30 August 2004 11:18 pm, Felix Miata wrote:
Nothing I wrote was meant to apply to flat panel displays. The post I originally responded to refered to 17" & 19" @ 1280x1024, making no mention of display type, and I didn't see the OP prior to a (painfully slow) search at http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-Aug/index.html after reading your Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:27:44 -0700 post.
To me, and with nothing more said, 17" & 19" mean CRT, not LCD. OTOH 16", 18" & 20" to me with nothing more said do refer to flat panel displays. Alrighty then....that explains it all. The OP said Envision, but never said LCD specifically. I just happened to know that Envision was an LCD...I have one :-)
I have no flat panels, and expect to get none before they evolve to the point of having the flexibility of tubes, meaning no significant degradation running at anything other than native ideal, much less a native ideal 5/4 logical aspect ratio mushed into a 4/3 physical viewspace. If I had to have a nominal 4/3 flat panel display, it would be native SXGA+ or UXGA, not native SXGA.
Understood....When we have problems with testing video cards and LCDs we use good old tubes. Tubes are great because they will sync to everything. I just switched from a tube about 2 years ago because I couldn't find an LCD that offered enough contract. This 19" does 700:1 which is pretty good for a $600 LCD.
FWIW, the displays I currently use are 17" Sony 200GS (max advertised 1280x1024) and 19" NEC FE990 (max advertised 1792x1344). The Sonys do much better on Linux at either 1280x960 or 1400x1050 than doze does 1280x1024. In fact, doze does better on the Sonys at 1600x1200 than it does at 1280x1024, not even considering the aspect distortion of the latter.
I might go down and try a tube a bit later. It would be interesting to see because I never ran anything other than vesa standards or Sun (1152x900@66Hz). Thanks for the info.
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