On Wed, May 27, 1998 at 01:50:36AM +0200, Chris Zander wrote: > Yes, I know what you mean - at the time that I though Linux was some sort > of light bulb (you laugh, it's not that long ago though) I was using win95 > with a 14" monitor @1024x768 with 60Hz. It turned out that my eyes would > fatigue too early, which forced me to lower the res to 800x600, which was > ok for my windows apps. When I started calculating modelines and > experimenting with X I discovered that most people that had contributed > modelines were using BIG monitors - most of the X software seemed to be > developed for big displays as well. You mention xterm - i think it is a > good example. Working with the virtual desktops was fun at first (I'd > never done anything remotely similar before and it was a way of making up > the missing space, however Netscape Mail was just to big to fit one of the > virtual desktops which resulted in a permanent desktop switching to reach > the several send/receive buttons (I didn't know about Xresources then). I'm talking about the panning around the desktop.. ie a 1024x768 desktop with a 640x480 window for example. DOS programs that do this range from $50 (MAGic) to $500 (ZoomText) and those didn't AFAIK do windoze, though I am sure ZoomText does by now. X server will do it free, if that's what you want. It's not what I want though. I want just the TEXT bigger, or a monitor that makes EVERYTHING bigger. > I finally decided it was no use running X and its software below 1024x768 > (at least my tired eyes did) and I bought a 17" monitor - I regret the > purchase of many things related to my computer, but this was a good > investment. Maybe you should consider getting a 17" one instead of 19" - > they aren't that bad. I was surprised when I got mine: it allows 1152x864 > @100Hz. Yes, but you see without large fonts I have trouble in 800x600 on my 14", I really should be using 640x480. I have VERY bad eyesight. =p > How old is your 20" monitor? Do you think its necessary to modify it in > order to make it run? Old enough that it requires a sync on green and for 20" is a 60Hz monitor with 1024x768 _ONLY_, ie no VGA. Before I got this thing, the Commission for the Blind of Oregon (I am considered legally blind and this state funded organization helps find people like me reasonable jobs and helps pay for or often outright buys adaptive equipment that makes the task easier) offered to try and buy the 21" monitor that my counsellor at the Commission agreed would help me LOTS more than any software solution which tended to slow me down and had compatibility problems anyway.. The end result was that they could buy the $500 software, a $2500 speech synthesizer and DOS speech software (summer of 95, all win95 was at the time was hype) but not the $1200 monitor. Not specifically adaptive equipment so they couldn't do it. I found one here[1] that looked promising, but that's still gonna be $650 by the time I could get it shipped It's only 19" but it should do for 1024x768 and possibly an occasional trek into 1280x1024 for viewing of very hi-res graphics. It's only a .28mm but it'll still go up to 1600x1200 which is more than I can use for ANYTHING practical. It's a 202MHz monitor with freqs of 30-95kHz, 50-160Hz so it'll do thos nice, big, high refresh rate modes for graphics and text.. => Of course I'm not using a free OS because I have loads of cash laying around. that's a little outside my budget now and I think a hard drive is more essential just now. ----------- [1] http://www.adiusa.com/6p.html
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