LCD Monitors and Fedora

[Jim Higson]

On Saturday 27 Nov 2004 10:00, Volker Kindermann wrote:
> Hi Patrick,
>
> > I am about to dive into the LCD Monitor world and I was curious how many
> > of you use LCD Monitors with FC3?
>
> I'm using it sometimes with a Samsung SyncMaster 191T.
>
> > Electronics L1710BK 17" LCD Monitor.  I noticed that this model was not
> > in the list of monitors to choose from in the list in Display Settings.
> > Most likely it would be a Generic LCD Monitor I would have to choose.
> > Now, would I be at any disadvantage by choosing this?  Every CRT Monitor
> > I have had has always been recognized and I have never had to use a
> > Generic setting.  So, just curious if I would be better off looking for
> > a different model or is choosing Generic perfectly alright?  Thank you
> > for your time.
>
> I've never had problems with my SyncMaster. Not with Linux, nor with
> OpenBSD or FreeBSD. The only thing I consider important is to get the
> Monitor frequencies from your vendor (mostly mentioned in technical
> specs). With these it is easy to tweak your xorg.conf so that it will
> work just fine with your LCD.

While you may have to do this, almost all monitors send the info to X wia EDID 
these days, so I'd see if it didn't work first before bothering.

I've used Fedora from FC1 to 3 with three different TFTs from Samsung and one 
from Benq without any problems.

In most cases a monitor isn't a device that needs be explicitly supported, 
there's a standard between vid card and display and as long as both devices 
implement it properly, there's not much to worry about.