[Novalug] incredibly stupid monitor

[Jon LaBadie]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 04:16:59PM -0400, Ed James wrote:
> My gut tells me the lady doesn't know beans.  Of course, I could
> easily be wrong.  I doubt the age of the computer matters, but
> that the video driver and type of video card DO matter.  Now, if
> your vid chipset is part of the mobo, then that might well be a
> problem, but I'm still behind the tech curve on this.  Anyone
> here running like a P-III that supports the wide screen monitors,
> and did you need to choose wisely your vid card?
> 
> Ed James
> 
> Quoting Beartooth <karhunhammas at Lserv.com>:
> 
> ...
> >	I went to the shop for a replacement. The lady told me older 
> >	computers
> >often won't support wide screens -- anything over 1280.
> ...

I've got three of that vintage driving a single 1680x1050 22"
Samsung monitor through a KVM switch.  The feed is through the
VGA connector rather than DVI as none of systems has a DVI output.

 - A Gateway PIII 933MHz.  It came with a separate AGP video card,
   but I've no idea what it is.  Running Fedora 7.

 - A eMachines with an old AMD Athlon XP 3200.  It has integrated
   video.  Running SuSE 10.2

 - A "really" old custom built PIII 600MHz.  CPU is upgraded to 1GHz
   but video is still an AGP Matrox G400 with 32MB of memory.  This
   one runs Solaris 9, certainly not known for up-to-date video drivers.
   
jon
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