I've been using a 17" Dell CRT monitor on one of my computers for the last 8 years and it has never given me any problems. But, for the size of screen, the monitor itself takes up a huge amount of deskspace which, I believe, is also impeding the wifi signal from my router which is right beside it.
Sadly, it's time to say goodbye so I bought an Acer 21.5" X223HQBBMD TFT screen which cost me just €119. Maximum resolution is 1920x1080 which is quite a bit larger than the 1280x1050 on the old CRT.
Set it up today and it works perfectly for both Windows 7 and Ubuntu with the max resolution easily attainable.
Haiku R1A2, however, was a different story.
When I booted to Haiku first, I was using Haiku's Unified nVidia driver with which I was able to get a 1280x1050 resolution on the CRT.
Now on the new screen, it seemed to fill the whole screen but was still giving a 1280x1050 resolution..........but I wanted more.
Now my nVidia GeForce 7300 LS has no problem with the 1920x1080 res but is there a driver available for Haiku?
There are two other nVidia drivers in Haikuware so, first, I tried Haiku nVidia TNT/GF driver.
With this I got a maximum resolution of 1680x1050 which didn't fill the whole screen presumably because of the lower aspect ration (1.6 vs 1.78). Nevertheless, it is a whole lot sharper than it was originally with the 1280x1050.
Then I tried the nVidia TNT/GF 3D driver which turned out to be no better in terms of resolution.
OK, not a complete success but Haiku looks exceptionally good on this monitor even if it doesn't fill the whole screen.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
New monitor for Dell E520
Posted by PaulFXH at 23:40
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