On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 10:58, Wojciech PodgÃrni wrote: > UÅytkownik Anne Wilson napisaÅ: > >On Friday 12 Nov 2004 23:40, 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 PodgÃrni > > > >Around 2 years ago I bought this Taxan LCD monitor, and asked the same > >question. I rang Taxan's tech. support line and was told that *any* LCD > > that is plug'n'Play should work with Linux. > > > >I also have an Iiyama running with Linux, but like Richard, I have to say > > that there are sometimes minor setup problems. The Iiyama, for instance, > > is detected as capable of 24-bit colour, but that causes problems. Set > > it to run at 16-bit and all the problems disappear. 16M colours is more > > than I can see, anyway ;-) > > > >Anne > > Thank you for your anwers! > But my question was about *non*-LCD monitors... Do all the newest > Plug'n'Play non-LCD monitors work with Mandrake? > > Wojciech PodgÃrni > > PS. BTW, I am glad to read that LCD monitors work with Mandrake!
Oops - sorry! I think the answer will be the same, though. Linux appears to handle pnp perfectly well. Good luck Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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