[Techtalk] better video display?

[Tabatha Persad]

Hi Shari,

The first thing I wanted to recommend was a view of the Dell 
documentation.  

http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/systems/pcyp/specs.htm#video

(I used to support Dell with Windows, I get around their site pretty 
quickly!)

If you have the 14.1" display, 1024x768 looks like the highest 
resolution you will get..  It's denoted as XGA Active Matrix Color.  
I assumed you had this size display because of the resolution.  The 
specs indicate that there is also a 12.1" display that is SVGA Active 
Matrix Color, but only gets a max res of 800x600.

On my desktop machine, I have this really garbage generic 15" monitor 
 that gets up to 1280x1024.  I also from time to time get a 
"jiggling" effect, which seems to go away when the monitor's been on 
a while.  I can't tell you it's necessarily good or bad, it's just 
something I live with.  Maybe someone will tell me that's damaging my 
monitor - but so far I haven't heard anything bad about the jigglies.

An external monitor capable of higher resolutions should work fine, 
if you want to go to 1280x1024 or 1600x1200.

Which distro are you using?  In Mandrake, the Mandrake Control 
Center allows me to use a GUI to configure and choose the resolution 
and type of monitor, and of course, perform a test of the settings 
before accepting.

Let me know if I caused you to have more questions!

Tab


On Thursday 16 May 2002 16:04, Shari wrote:
> Problem is, my video display is less than wonderful.  Nothing I
> can't see, just some flickering and some blurry spots.  I also
> can't get a resolution higher than 1024 x 768.
>
> When I got to the select Monitor type during the install, I just
> accepted Generic Laptop Display Panel.  Is there something else I
> can do?  Anything is possible (except a separate monitor).  I
> bought a separate hard drive just so I could crash and burn the
> whole thing if necessary.
>
> Thanks in adv. . .
> Shari
>
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