Matthias Hopf wrote:
On Nov 29, 06 18:10:24 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
If you connect the ViewSonic using the digital cable you lose the
ability to change Contrast/Brightness and any Manual Adjustments to the
image size/position; only connecting using the analog connection can one
get these controls back.
Ouch!
That is what I would call a broken monitor.
No, it's not the monitor that is broken but me :-) .
I just looked at bit closer at the manual and also what I did with the
settings and the real story is that if you use the DVI connection then-
the Auto Image Adjust (which auto adjusts for waviness etc on analog); and
the Manual Image Adjust (which adjusts hor/vert position)
are disabled but everything else is 'working'.
The monitor has 4 colour temperature settings:
4500K
6500K
9300K and
sRGB
This is were I went wrong with what I said earlier. It is setting the
colour to sRGB which disables the Contrast/Brightness control because it
is not needed, but Contrast/Brightness adjustment is available if you
choose any of the other 3 temperatures.
So I have now (temporarily) dropped the sRGB setting and (briefly)
fiddled with the contrast and brightness settings but I'll return to the
sRGB setting because the HP Photosmart printer I defaults to sRGB
setting and this to me means that - in theory :-) - what I see on the
screen is what I'll see in print. (I say "in theory" because both the
monitor and the printer are new to me and the printer has not yet been
put to proper use.)
The only way to control the monitor when using digital, therefore, is
thru the software - in this case playing around with the gamma setting
in Personal Settings (in Suse).
You won't control the monitor this way, only the final output table of
the graphics hardware.
BTW - both 100% white and 100% black will remain exactly the same if you
change gamma. So the monitor will continue to shine as bright as before
when you're using a white background like in terminal windows.
So I am now beginning to realise :-) . The screen does look *very* good
though through Polaroid sunglasses :-) .
Cheers.
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with sense,
reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
Galileo Galilei
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