LCD monitors

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Sun Aug 12 13:06:40 UTC 2007


On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:20:12AM -0400, William O'Higgins Witteman 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.

dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg should be everything you need to do.

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

There are DVI-I to VGA adapters, which simply allow you to connect VGA to
a DVI-I port.  You can not do the reverse and connect a DVI display to a
VGA port.  Most LCD screens include both DVI and VGA, although you
should get a more stable display using DVI since there is no analog
conversions involved.

DVI-D ports only do DVI but most video cards are DVI-I.

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