On Friday 12 Nov 2004 11:40 pm, Wojciech PodgÃrni wrote: > Hello everyone! > I have a hardware question for you. My aunt is buying a Plug'n'Play > flat screen monitor for her Mandrake 10.0 computer and I am worried > if it would work on that system. The rest of the hardware is quite > old - GeForce 256 DDR video card, old Pentium Celeron motherboard, > slow processor (but much RAM), etc. The problem is that Mandrake > hardware database is quite incomplete and it lacks some of the newer > hardware. The question is: > Is Mandrake going to work with the newer Plug'n'Play monitors such as > SAMSUNG 17" - 793 DF ? Should I expect any problems? > Thank you in advance for any answer. > Wojciech Podgórni
The monitor should identify itself to the X windows system, with a list of refresh frequencies it is happy with. So the monitor per se is probably fine. The problem I had with my LCD was that the monitor was very choosy about it's refresh frequencies at its highest (ie native) resolution, and the video card, although it could theoretically get up there, did not have enough head room to produce a frequency within the monitor's pass-band. So long as the maximum dot clock of the graphics board is well above the dot rate of the monitor you should have no problem, but by well above I mean something like ten times or more. -- Richard Urwin
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