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Re: flat panels anyone?



We've got a host of them at the office -- ViewSonic VG150s.  They're
reasonably good, though I prefer my 19" Princeton Ultra95 CRT for
overall image quality, resolution, and clarity.

The ViewSonics are well supported under Linux, console works out of the
box, and X config is generally pretty straightforward.  There are some
artifacts -- in particular, console mode text gets seriously chunky at
higher resolutions -- say 50x80 or 60x80.  There's also the stray
dropped pixel -- essentially a screen bit that's always either on or
off.  Most panels have one or two.  

Effective resolution under X is slightly less than an equivalent (17")
CRT -- 1024x768 was about the most I could sqeeze out (vs. 1280x1024).

On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 03:13:35PM +1200, Hunter H Marshall wrote:
> Anybody using a flat panel display? Are there any special issues
> regarding their use? I don't know what Dell, etc, are using for their
> cards, but ATI makes a digital card that I think is a supported chip
> set (ATI Rage LT Pro). Is that the only thing to worry about?
> 
> I'm guessing that the "DFP connector" refers to a recent standard so
> that displays and cards no longer need to be purchased together?
> 
> Thanks for any info, anecdotes, or vague rumors.
> 
> 	hunter
> 
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