LCD Monitor Support in Ubuntu

[David M. Carney]

On Sunday 06 February 2005 16:49, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
> Hello.
>
> David M. Carney:
> > I'm thinking of upgrading my 17 inch CRT
> > for a 17 inch LCD/flat panel monitor.
>
> Great! You won't regret it. Getting used to LCD make take some time (for
> the first week my brain kept telling me the screen borders are curved),
> but after a couple months' time you'll start treating CRTs as strange.
>
> :o)
> :
> > At the same time, I may upgrade my Nvidia card (32 meg) to one with
> > a bit more memory. I intend to stay with Nvidia, so my commercial
> > Nvidia driver will probably still work.
>
> Yep, nVidia is currently the better
> choice from a Linux user's point of view.
>
> > What's important, besides what actually
> > "looks good"? Contrast? Brightness?
>
> Colour. AFAIK, the response times are no longer an issue, but colour
> is still a problem, especially if you like editing photographs on your
> computer (or plan to in the future), not to mention any serious graphic
> work. I was hunting for my LCD two years ago, so my data might be
> a bit outdated; still, if I was going to choose now, I'd give the
> colour rendition topic a through search. This is the problem of
> choosing the matrix used in the monitor, from what I remember MVA
> (or PVA) is better in colour rendition than the other ones. Check
> out www.tomshardware.com, they had some nice tests and articles on
> this topic.
>
> > Is DVI important? Is it supported in Ubuntu? I am not a "gamer" but
> > I do use flight simulators (X-Plane for Linux, GL-117, Flight Gear).
>
> DVI is, IMHO, very important; from the support point of view, it's just
> a different connector to your graphic card (so the system doesn't even
> know you're using DVI), but from technical PoV it's much more. The
> signal doesn't get recoded from digital to analog by the graphic card
> and back to digital by the monitor, it stays digital all the way, which
> means the colours are "more true" and every pixel is exatly as the
> card would like it to be. If you stayed with an analog connection,
> the neighbouring pixels could impact on a given pixel's colour.
>
> Even if you don't have a DVI-equipped graphic card, it's better to
> get a DVI monitor and connect it through an adapter, but if you're
> getting a new card anyway it's a non-issue (but make sure you're getting
> a card with the DVI output).
>
> > I've used Linux for some years now but I've never had to reconfigure
> > my x server. What would I need to do to reconfigure my Warty i386 box?
>
> Issue `sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86` in the terminal,
> answer the Debconf questions and log out and back in afterwards.
>
> Cheers,
> -- Shot

Thanks! You have been most helpful.

David

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