Best current monitor for Linux
wexfordpress
don't seem to have any good choices. I have my xorg.conf set up with
1024x768 etc. but I like to run it
640x480 and roll around the desktop with my mouse. However I am told
that digital monitors, unlike CRTs, have a fixed resolution and
running at lower resolutions causes blurring.
Assuming that the above characteristics of digital monitors are
correct what is the least bad digital monitor to run in zoom mode,
i.e. 640x480 on a 1024x768 desktop?
I can buy a new monitor. A new set of eyes is not available. I only
got the one pair and that was 76 years ago.
John Culleton
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> Currently I use a Sony CPD-G520 21" CRT monitor. But when it dies I
> don't seem to have any good choices. I have my xorg.conf set up with
> 1024x768 etc. but I like to run it
> 640x480 and roll around the desktop with my mouse. However I am told
> that digital monitors, unlike CRTs, have a fixed resolution and running
> at lower resolutions causes blurring.
Not if you pick an even divisor - e.g. if the native resolution is
1280x1024, then 640x512 would work quite well.
Anton Ertl
>Currently I use a Sony CPD-G520 21" CRT monitor. But when it dies I
>don't seem to have any good choices. I have my xorg.conf set up with
>1024x768 etc. but I like to run it
>640x480 and roll around the desktop with my mouse. However I am told
>that digital monitors, unlike CRTs, have a fixed resolution and
>running at lower resolutions causes blurring.
The interpolation can be surprisingly good (e.g. on my Dell 3008WFP
1920x1200 is interpolated very well, probably so well that someone
with bad eyes won't notice the difference). It can also be
surprisingly bad (very low resolutions come out badly on this
monitor). You'll have to look at the concrete monitor with the
concrete resolution you are interested in.
It seems that you want to have large fonts. An alternative would be
to use the monitor at it's native resolution and use a desktop
environment with settings for large fonts.
Finally, you can probably get a big CRT for very little money if you
look around long enough; I offered a 21" CRT for EUR 30,- (but you
have to fetch it yourself) a few months ago, and nobody was
interested.
- anton
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General Schvantzkoph
>
> It seems that you want to have large fonts. An alternative would be to
> use the monitor at it's native resolution and use a desktop environment
> with settings for large fonts.
This is right answer, change the font size (in Gnome it's under Look and
Feel/Apperance/Fonts).
Get a big 24" high res monitor (I have a 24" Dell which is great) and set
the font sizes as big as you need.
Henrik Carlqvist
> On Mon, 25 May 2009 07:25:28 -0700, wexfordpress wrote:
>> However I am told that digital monitors, unlike CRTs, have a fixed
>> resolution and running at lower resolutions causes blurring.
>
> Not if you pick an even divisor - e.g. if the native resolution is
> 1280x1024, then 640x512 would work quite well.
A few years ago I tried to do exactly that, connecting a monitor to a PC
to present data from an embedded system. If I remember right 640x512 would
have been a perfect resolution for us.
Unfortunately the monitor refused to display non-standard resolutions like
640x512. When writing such a modeline in xorg.conf (or maybe it was
XF86Config back then) the monitor wrongly assumed that it got some vesa
resolution like 640x480 with scrolling or multiple images as the result.
The monitor was a Philips TFT monitor, it would not have been any problems
to write such custom modelines for CRT monitors. If I remember right I
also tried some Eizo TFT monitors and they also had the same problems to
display non standard resolutions.
One kind of monitor that might be worth considering would be an LCD TV.
Some of those have a rather low native resolution like 1360x768 on a big
area like 32".
On the other hand, most TFTs do a good job at interpolating the images and
I don't think that eyes which would suffer from a high native resolution
will notice any interpolation blurring.
regards Henrik
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Evan24
> Currently I use a Sony CPD-G520 21" CRT monitor.
Great monitor.
>But when it dies I
> don't seem to have any good choices.
Its quality is outstanding. I doubt it will break down anytime soon.
> I have my xorg.conf set up with
> 1024x768 etc. but I like to run it
> 640x480 and roll around the desktop with my mouse.
Buy a good quality lcd panel of 24" or larger and use the excellent
zooming features provided by compiz.
Arno
Pick one that has "good interpolation" in tests. Also try to get
close to integral multiples in the native resolution. 1280x1024
shoul be pretty good for 640x480.
Arno