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Re: Dell Flat Panel Monitor



On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 08:47, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> * Jim McCloskey (mcclosk@cats.ucsc.edu) spake thusly:
> > 
> > I seem to have acquired a Dell 1702FP Flat Panel Monitor.
> > 
> > I have a Matrox G400 video card, and I'm running Xfree 4.1 from
> > testing, using the mga driver from Xfree (rather than the one from
> > Matrox). The monitor will in principle take either a digital or an
> > analog input from the video card.
> > 
> > Does anyone know where I might get information about how to get the
> > best performance out of this monitor? Will setting it up be as simple
> > as putting the right numbers (resolution, horizontal/vertical sync and
> > so on) into XF86-Config-4?
> 
> Yes.

You needn't even bother with the horiz/vert sync, since XFree86 should
figure this out from DDC information directly from the display.

You might be interested in the expansion card that adds digital output
to the G400.  I'm using one with a Samsung flat panel and it looks hot.

-jwb



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