LCD monitors

[Colin McGregor]

--- William O'Higgins Witteman
<william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I am finally getting an LCD monitor, and I'm
> wondering if I have to do
> anything over than 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg'? 
> I've had the same
> 17" CRT since I started using Linux in 2000, so I'm
> unsure if I need to
> do anything special.

Probably not. A few months ago I spent a bit of time
dealing with a SuSE Enterprise Linux box and 15" HP
LCD screen. The hardware detection system in SuSE did
not recognize this particular screen, and then went
with some awful looking defaults. This was just an odd
combo of one monitor and one distribution. Most of the
time you should be fine.

Other side of the coin I have a 17" LCD screen at
home, and every distro I've tried at home has either
auto-detected the screen with no problem, or gone with
reasonable enough looking default settings. Regardless
VGA just worked.

> Also, is there a problem with the VGA-DVI adapters,
> or should things
> "just work"?  Thanks.

Not sure. I've never tried DVI.

> -- 
> 
> yours,
> 
> William
> 
> 

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