protofan@motcid.UUCP (Michael S. Protofanousis) (08/03/90)
I need to purchase a VGA (SVGA) card to use with ISC 2.2. What card should I buy? What monitor? I am thinking of getting a Sony 1304 monitor (1024x768 noninterlaced) with a ATI VGA wonder (512K). I would like to hear from anyone who is running 2.2 with any VGA card. I would really like to know what graphics cards are being used with X11 (R3 or R4). Is anyone running X in 1024x768 resolution? Has anyone tried using high resolution programs under VPIX? I am sure someone must have at least an 800x600 resolution X out there! What graphics card are you using? Thanks in advance. -- Michael Protofanousis Work: 708-632-6779 uunet!motcid!protofan Home: 708-724-0744
wtm@uhura.neoucom.EDU (Bill Mayhew) (08/03/90)
The Sony 1304 is an excellent monitor. I an very impressed with the engineering inside the monitor. The auto-size / auto-center is the best of any monitor that I have seen. One caviat is that the factory default for the auto-size vertical is 768 lines max. If you use 1024*800 VGA mode (such as on the Paradise VGA+/16 and similar VGA boards based on the WD chip set) you'll want to have a qualified technican adjust the internal vertical height; otherwise your screen will be overscanned about 10-15 lines at the bottom of the screen. If you don't use 1024*800 that much, the manual-height over-ride switch that is user-accesible on the left side of the monitor has more than enough lattitute to adjust the screen. The 1304 is also an analog-only monitor, but with VGA and 8514 video boards in abundance there is no reason to fret. I searched for a long time for a personal monitor, and the 1304 is the only one that satisfied me for picture clarity, geometry and power supply regulation. The 1304 pin-cushions less than any other monitor as average screen intensity varies. A good torture test for monitors is to set up a program that draws a white box that fills the entire screen then switch to a black box with a 1-pixel white border. Switch back-and-forth. Note if you see any picture pin-cushion or blooming at the edge of the box as you switch. The 1304 shows less than 1 mm of movement on this test. ==Bill== -- Bill Mayhew Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Rootstown, OH 44272-9995 USA phone: 216-325-2511 wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu ....!uunet!aablue!neoucom!wtm via internet: (140.220.001.001)
richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) (08/04/90)
>The Sony 1304 is an excellent monitor. I an very impressed with >the engineering inside the monitor. The auto-size / auto-center is >the best of any monitor that I have seen. One caviat is that the >factory default for the auto-size vertical is 768 lines max. If >you use 1024*800 VGA mode (such as on the Paradise VGA+/16 and Isn't a monitor that size too small to be practical for use at 1024x768? -- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com
rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) (08/07/90)
richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes: > >The Sony 1304 is an excellent monitor. I an very impressed with > >the engineering inside the monitor...[more praise from original] ... > Isn't a monitor that size too small to be practical for use at 1024x768? No, not at all. But you do start looking at the monitor in a different way. It's no longer this big TV-like thing that sits in the distance, with huge fuzzy letters. It's more like having a piece of paper in front of you. 1024x768 on that monitor (14" overall diag) gives you around 100 dpi. There are good mono display systems available with 150 dpi! It's high time color monitors started getting good resolution (meaning dpi, as opposed to total pixels). I've been using a 768x1024 (i.e., portrait mode) 14" mono display for about six months now. I'll fight to keep it. -- Dick Dunn rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd Boulder, CO (303)449-2870 ...Are you making this up as you go along?