I have a chance to get a Dell E173FP, 17" Flat-Panel Monitor for $240-regularly $299. Is that a good thing to get or would you have a better recommendation for a flat-panel. I'm assuming that these things work fine with Linux. Any special things I would need to know about configuring to use one? Do they have horiz and vert rates like the old monitors I'm used to? Thanks. I only have til tomorrow to make a decision on this. Anita
Anita Lewis wrote: > I have a chance to get a Dell E173FP, 17" Flat-Panel Monitor for > $240-regularly $299. I've never had a stand alone flat panel monitor, but they should be pretty much like a lap top screen. Both are LCD's (Liquid Crystal Display) . All distros I've tried on my lap top have recognized it and installed with no problems. Changing monitors on an installed distro might be a bit different. You might try booting in safe mode, switching to the LCD setting, shut down, swap monitors and reboot. Most of the LCD's seem to have a prefered mode and don't require tweeking the settings. If you're feeling greedy -- TigerDirect has a 19" for $249 Steve Kist (a.k.a. LittleBlue, RockHopper)
Anita, I don't know a thing about either this monitor (Dell E173FP) or whether Linux is okay with it, but I do know that a search on "Dell E173FP" in ebay will find you plenty of these monitors, new and a lot cheaper than the price you have shown below. My own ebay recent experience bought me a Modem - the Robotics 5610B, which you recently suggested - for all of $37.00 and that price includes shipping charges. Howard At 03:27 PM 6/2/2005 -0400, you wrote: >I have a chance to get a Dell E173FP, 17" Flat-Panel Monitor for >$240-regularly $299. Is that a good thing to get or would you have a >better recommendation for a flat-panel. I'm assuming that these things >work fine with Linux. Any special things I would need to know about >configuring to use one? Do they have horiz and vert rates like the old >monitors I'm used to? > >Thanks. I only have til tomorrow to make a decision on this. > >Anita >_______________________________________________ >LinuxBasics.org mailing list >QnA@... >http://mail.LinuxBasics.org/mailman/listinfo/qna
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On Thursday 02 June 2005 03:27 pm, Anita Lewis wrote: > I have a chance to get a Dell E173FP, 17" Flat-Panel Monitor for > $240-regularly $299. Is that a good thing to get or would you have a > better recommendation for a flat-panel. I'm assuming that these things > work fine with Linux. Any special things I would need to know about > configuring to use one? Do they have horiz and vert rates like the old > monitors I'm used to? > > Thanks. I only have til tomorrow to make a decision on this. I wouldn't let myself feel rushed--prices on flat panel monitors are coming down, and I've seen deals in this price range and lower in the last month or so (including places like tigerdirect, Isellsurplus, and local BestBuy / CircuitCity / Staples ads. I looked into them a few years ago, and this is just from memory--at least some of them were set up or ideal for a certain resolution--if you use a different resolution things won't look as good. You also want to pay attention to brightness and contrast, in general, those aren't as good (yet) as for a crt. I don't think they specify horiz and vert scan rates, but instead focus on resolution, i.e. 1600x1200, 1024x768, or whatever. Also, there is some question about their life expectancy, whether they'll last as long as a CRT or not. Sorry, I don't like to answer when I'm not sure of what I'm talking about--my basic message is don't feel rushed, take time to look into specs and so forth, and try out the monitor under the conditions that you plan to use it(Continue reading)
Anita, A Google search on E173FP and Linux revealed the following: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-38208.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/msg04670.html http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/320836 http://www.thisishull.net/archive/index.php/t-65519.html I hope this list helps you with your decision to purchase the E173FP monitor. Howard At 03:27 PM 6/2/2005 -0400, you wrote: >I have a chance to get a Dell E173FP, 17" Flat-Panel Monitor for >$240-regularly $299. Is that a good thing to get or would you have a >better recommendation for a flat-panel. I'm assuming that these things >work fine with Linux. Any special things I would need to know about >configuring to use one? Do they have horiz and vert rates like the old >monitors I'm used to? > >Thanks. I only have til tomorrow to make a decision on this. > >Anita >_______________________________________________ >LinuxBasics.org mailing list >QnA@...(Continue reading)
Thanks for the advice about not rushing on this. As suggested, I did look around and found the same monitor for less and also a NEC that looks better to me. I decided to remain with a 17" since I've been happy with it on CRT. The NEC that I found lists the horiz and vertical rates and I see on my laptop that there are only generic horiz and vertical rates set in xorg.conf. I had forgotten that the laptop has LCD; so that was good information. The links were informative, too. It looks like since I have the actual refresh rates for the model I am getting, I can just plug them in. Thanks again everyone. I'll let you know the outcome once I get the monitor. I'm hoping I don't have issues with fonts like what I have read about. I kind of doubt that since I don't have issues on the laptop. -- -- Anita http://linuxbasics.org
Sam Morgan wrote: > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r6 > > Version 3.0 r6 of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) is out. "This is the > sixth and final update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (codename `woody') Shouldn't that read: "...is the sixth final update..." Like "Revenge of the Sixth" :) Stefan
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