[PLUG] Working With a Wide Monitor

Mark Turner mturner at bendbulletin.com
Tue Aug 14 18:48:06 UTC 2007


If you need a PCI card look for a nVidia MX440.

If you need a APG card I would go with a Nvidia GeForce 5200.

Both cards have worked well for me especially with wide screens at 1680 
x 1050

-mark

Rich Shepard wrote:
>   The power supply on my Hyundai LCD monitor finally died this morning 
> so I
> had to purchase a replacement monitor. Most of those offered for sale
> nowadays seem to be the wide variety, for reasons I do not understand.
> (However, I don't play games or watch movies on my computers so my 
> lack of
> understanding may be reasonable.)
>
>   Anyway, I bought locally (Staples) because the cost in lost time and 
> gas
> of driving to Fry's would have doubled the price of one of their 
> monitors,
> and I ended up with an Acer AL1916W because it's a clearance special. I
> added the native 1400x900 resolution to /etc/X11/xorg.conf and the sync
> frequencies are fine. But, everthing is stretched horizontally and is
> uncomfortable to read. This is especially true as most of my work is 
> done in
> virtual consoles in text mode.
>
>   The video card is an ATI Rage 128 Pro Ultra; my Google search did not
> produce the range of resolutions it is capable of supporting, but one hit
> suggested that the card cannot support wide screen resolutions. Could my
> inability to switch video modes to the 1400x900 resolution be card 
> related?
>
>   If I do need a new card, are there any brands/models to avoid? I'll
> probably go to ENU this afternoon, but put off shutting down, replacing
> hardware, and rebooting until the weekend.
>
> Rich
>




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