Re: A question about LCD flat panel displays
Most of the flatpanel displays I've seen online have said something like
"Max resolution: 1280x1024 at whatever refresh rate". And yes, most of the
max resolutions were 1280x1024. That's about all I have to say.
Jordan
----- Original Message -----
From: "stan" <stanb@awod.com>
To: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: A question about LCD flat panel displays
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 01:13:11PM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> > * stan (stanb@awod.com) spake thusly:
> > > I'm contemplating purchasing an LCD flat panel disply for use on the
new
> > > Debain woody workstation I am building for my wife.
> >
> > ITYM TFT.
> >
> > > Having never used one of these before, and since they are failry
expensive,
> > > I thought I would ask some advice of this list.
> > >
> > > We do a lot of work in console mode, in addition to some work in X.
Will
> > > I be able to use all of the framebuffer functiosn on this disply? I
> > > presently use xawtv in the console mode, fbi to display graphics, and
have
> > > a custom resolutinon set up for the console sessiosn. Will all of
these
> > > work with the LCD flat panel?
> >
> > I have a 15" and 17" TFTs at work. For me 15" is not enough scren real
> > estate to use X, so that box runs in 1024x768 framebuffer console. The
> > only problem with that is that it's noticeably slow in high-colour
> > (> 256) modes; on 256-colour framebuffer fbi fails to render high-colour
> > images (but this has nothing to do with the screen being TFT).
> >
> > 17" works fine with KDE and true type fonts (anti-aliasing helps a bit,
> > too). All TFT screens I've seen come with EDID, so X v.4 works on them
> > automagically.
> >
> Thanks for the inof.
>
> However, I still don't have an answer to one of my most important
> questiosn.
>
> Will the flat panel display be limited to just one resolution (eg
> 1024x768)?
>
> If so, does this mean that I can only use the non X consoles in
framebuffer
> mode at that resolution? How about, sy the BIOS screens, which are at (I
> would assume) CGA resolutin?
>
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