Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-23 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 22, 8:31 pm, Fabian Fang f...@mac.com wrote: You have been working with VGA output from the Mac mini, which   supports analog resolutions as high as 1920x1080.  I believe that your   ViewSonic monitor accepts DVI input. The ViewSonic accepts both VGA DVI. The odd thing is that it

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-22 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 21, 5:49 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Aug 21, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: If the cable is a VGA cable, and you have a DVI-to-VGA at the Mini,   then you're stuck unless you buy a DVI cable, which should give a   slightly crisper image on the monitor, as

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-22 Thread Fabian Fang
On Aug 22, 2010, at 7:23 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: On Aug 21, 5:49 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: If the cable is a VGA cable, and you have a DVI-to-VGA at the Mini, then you're stuck unless you buy a DVI cable, which should give a slightly crisper image on the monitor, as well as

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread Bill Connelly
Why are we getting this message 5 times? On Aug 20, 2010, at 8:16 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: On Aug 18, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Try your wife's Acer monitor on the Mini, if you can... that's a good idea Bruce. I'll try that next time I'm down in Santa

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread Ashgrove
I have read complaints about repeated messages in several of the Mac discussions, and 5 seems to be the magic number. People have been blaming each other for this matter, but it's obviously not one or two people playing around. My personal take on it is that it's a Google bug. In my case, I opted

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread John Carmonne
Gee Im happy to see others complaining about this because I recently was accused by a Nannie (who I won't name here) of spamming and excessive quoting, when I asked for an explanation I was snarked. On Aug 21, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Ashgrove wrote: I have read complaints about repeated

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread Richard Gerome
I think something is wrong with this google site??? -Original Message- From: Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net Sent: Aug 21, 2010 11:55 AM To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution Why are we getting this message 5 times

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 21, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Ashgrove wrote: I have read complaints about repeated messages in several of the Mac discussions, and 5 seems to be the magic number. People have been blaming each other for this matter, but it's obviously not one or two people playing around. My personal take on

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 21, 10:51 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Yeah it's been intermittently hitting me. It's a Google issue, absolutely. First of all let me apologize for any culpability I may have. I wanted to edit my last post and tried removing the initial post. It took several

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 21, 10:51 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Yeah it's been intermittently hitting me. It's a Google issue, absolutely. First of all let me apologize for any culpability I may have. I wanted to edit my last post and tried removing the initial post. It took several

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 21, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: Kris, I'm embarrassed to say that looking more closely at the monitor I notice I actually already have a DVI/VGA adapter installed My previous Del 19 was VGA. Based on your experience, it doesn't seem to make sense to try a straight DVI

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-20 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 18, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Try your wife's Acer monitor on the Mini, if you can... that's a good idea Bruce. I'll try that next time I'm down in Santa Barbara. On Aug 18, 5:25 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Open Display Preferences, with

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-20 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 18, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Try your wife's Acer monitor on the Mini, if you can... that's a good idea Bruce. I'll try that next time I'm down in Santa Barbara. On Aug 18, 5:25 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Open Display Preferences, with

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-20 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 18, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Try your wife's Acer monitor on the Mini, if you can... that's a good idea Bruce. I'll try that next time I'm down in Santa Barbara. On Aug 18, 5:25 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Open Display Preferences, with

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-20 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 18, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Try your wife's Acer monitor on the Mini, if you can... that's a good idea Bruce. I'll try that next time I'm down in Santa Barbara. On Aug 18, 5:25 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Open Display Preferences, with

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-20 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 18, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Try your wife's Acer monitor on the Mini, if you can... that's a good idea Bruce. I'll try that next time I'm down in Santa Barbara. On Aug 18, 5:25 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Open Display Preferences, with

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-20 Thread Clark Martin
On Aug 20, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: On Aug 18, 1:52 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: Try your wife's Acer monitor on the Mini, if you can... that's a good idea Bruce. I'll try that next time I'm down in Santa Barbara. On Aug 18, 5:25 pm, Clark

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: I'm running 10.4.11 on a mini G4 Bought ViewSonic VA2323WM 23 monitor. Looks great, except the VA2323 calls for 1920x1080 60 hz display and will only accept 800x600 and 1024x78 as alternatives. Everything else is out of range. Here are some

Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Cliff Rediger
I'm running 10.4.11 on a mini G4 Bought ViewSonic VA2323WM 23 monitor. Plug Play. Looks great, except the VA2323 calls for 1920x1080 60 hz display and will only accept 800x600 and 1024x78 as alternatives. Everything else is out of range. So two things about the 1920x1080 setting. 1. The window

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: So two things about the 1920x1080 setting. 1. The window does not fill the screen. Even when Horizontal size is maxed, there's a 5/8 border on on the left and 3/8 on the right. This sounds much more like a defective display than anything

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: So two things about the 1920x1080 setting. 1. The window does not fill the screen. Even when Horizontal size is maxed, there's a 5/8 border on on the left and 3/8 on the right. On Aug 18, 10:20 am, Bruce Johnson

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Cliff Rediger
On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: So two things about the 1920x1080 setting. 1. The window does not fill the screen. Even when Horizontal size is maxed, there's a 5/8 border on on the left and 3/8 on the right. On Aug 18, 10:20 am, Bruce Johnson

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: Relative to monitors more congenial to the miniG4 and OS 10.4.ll can you or other recommend monitors. My wife bought an Acer 22 and I don't recall having the resolution problem. Well, Vizio is on my normal list of recommended monitors, as is

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: I'm running 10.4.11 on a mini G4 Bought ViewSonic VA2323WM 23 monitor. Plug Play. Looks great, except the VA2323 calls for 1920x1080 60 hz display and will only accept 800x600 and 1024x78 as alternatives. Everything else is out of range. So

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Clark Martin
On Aug 18, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: On Aug 18, 2010, at 9:45 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: So two things about the 1920x1080 setting. 1. The window does not fill the screen. Even when Horizontal size is maxed, there's a 5/8 border on on the left and 3/8 on the right.

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 18, 2010, at 7:25 PM, Clark Martin wrote: I have my G4 MacMini connected to a 52 LCD TV via HDMI and I have many resolutions to pick from and at 1920 x 1080 it fills the screen. This is a slightly different issue. You're using a DVI-to-HDMI adapter cable, and the 52 LCD has many

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Clark Martin
On Aug 18, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Aug 18, 2010, at 7:25 PM, Clark Martin wrote: I have my G4 MacMini connected to a 52 LCD TV via HDMI and I have many resolutions to pick from and at 1920 x 1080 it fills the screen. This is a slightly different issue. You're using a

Re: Mini G4 10.4.11 ViewSonic monitor resolution

2010-08-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 18, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Clark Martin wrote: How do you figure the LCD has more pixels, it's a 1920 x 1080 screen. You're correct. 1920 BIG pixels, which is why HDTV make bad monitors unless you're sitting about 10 feet away. You can buy 15 notebooks with the same 1920x1080