On Saturday 27 Nov 2004 10:00, Volker Kindermann wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > > I am about to dive into the LCD Monitor world and I was curious how many > > of you use LCD Monitors with FC3? > > I'm using it sometimes with a Samsung SyncMaster 191T. > > > Electronics L1710BK 17" LCD Monitor. I noticed that this model was not > > in the list of monitors to choose from in the list in Display Settings. > > Most likely it would be a Generic LCD Monitor I would have to choose. > > Now, would I be at any disadvantage by choosing this? Every CRT Monitor > > I have had has always been recognized and I have never had to use a > > Generic setting. So, just curious if I would be better off looking for > > a different model or is choosing Generic perfectly alright? Thank you > > for your time. > > I've never had problems with my SyncMaster. Not with Linux, nor with > OpenBSD or FreeBSD. The only thing I consider important is to get the > Monitor frequencies from your vendor (mostly mentioned in technical > specs). With these it is easy to tweak your xorg.conf so that it will > work just fine with your LCD. While you may have to do this, almost all monitors send the info to X wia EDID these days, so I'd see if it didn't work first before bothering. I've used Fedora from FC1 to 3 with three different TFTs from Samsung and one from Benq without any problems. In most cases a monitor isn't a device that needs be explicitly supported, there's a standard between vid card and display and as long as both devices implement it properly, there's not much to worry about.
