Re: [LUG] LCD recommendations please

[Paul Sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

I have debian sid, working fine on a Benq 17" display tft - FP731,  The 
cd even came with drivers for suse,  which is what I was using at the 
time. I got this from kevin at www.farseerenterprises.com., he is a 
reseller, not sure what current prices are, contact details are on his 
website.

Paul
John Horne wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having a bit of trouble at work getting a suitable LCD display
> working with my Linux (FC4) desktop PC. I have tried a few but mostly I
> think the problem seems to be that the definition/contrast between white
> and grey is non-existent. Looking at my desktop (KDE) right now with
> evolution creating this message there are various shades of grey, yet
> LCD's seem to show this as a single, merged, grey which basically just
> looks awful. A second simple test was the http://www.redhat.com web
> site. Trying to get the speckled pattern on the sides of the web page to
> show seems to be difficult. The last monitor I tried just seemed
> completely unable to show shades of grey and was way too bright even
> with the brightness set to zero.
>
> I have been told by my manager to try and find some recommended LCD
> monitors that work well with Linux. What I need is a 17" LCD for general
> work desktop use. I use KDE, and run evolution, akregator, firefox, etc
> as X applications. Other than that I tend to use a standard shell prompt
> (konsole) for commands, and vi to write scripts/programs :-)
>
> At present I have a CTX 17" CRT which works fine, but we are trying to
> move over to LCD's where possible. I would be grateful for any LCD
> recommendations, or any tips on what to watch out for with LCD's.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> John.
>
>  


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