On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 08:40:10PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Niall O Broin thought:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 05:21:22PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote:
>
> > My 17" CRT monitor having drowned in a flood (10cm squared of burned
> > circuit board URGH!) , I'm thinking of a 15" LCD as a replacement.
> > What with me going to the continent and all next week, I might wait and
> > buy one there (for a reasonable price (Dave Neary!  Any good sources?)).
>
> Conor - it's a rather large continent - people might need to know where you
> are going to suggest sources. And if you're buying abroad, make sure you get
> to test it - many places won't have facilities for you to do that.
Um yeah, I suppose that'd be useful info...  Western France, La Rochelle
area.  Test as in test with Linux or just turn on and see that it works?
> > Question is: CAn I just plug in _any_ lcd monitor and expect it to work?
> > Are there special incantations needed for XFree86 to work.  Needless to
> > say, it'll be a bit difficult to bring it back to the shop once I'm home
> > in Dublin and find it doesn't work!
>
> Any monitor should just work - they all have VGA connectors and any half
> decent brand will be know about by XFree setup programs in modern
> distributions. However, if you have the budget (insurance paying for the
> dead monitor, perhaps ? - and WHERE was your monitor that it got caught in a
Bathroom upstairs, Computer desk downstairs, got dripped into, started
clicking rapidly and smoking before it was noticed and unplugged...
> flood ?) getting a monitor with a DVI input is best. Of course, you'll need
> a DVI out video card then, too. DVI provides a much better picture than VGA
I guess that requires something more in the way of budget then...  Given
that this monitor was serving as the single monitor for 4 boxen (via a
4-way vga KVM switch), I'd be looking at investing in 4 DVI cards along
with another KVM to suit while a VGA version _should_ just plug into
place.
Conor
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