On 8 June 2016 at 14:30, CLIFFORD ILKAY <[email protected]> wrote: > I bought this same 40" 4k Philips monitor for $699.99 at a Black Friday sale > last year at BestBuy and it has been working great(*). The Wasabi Mango was > an LG IPS panel. This one is a VA panel. Theoretically, the IPS panel is > supposed to be "better" but I really do not have any objections to the video > quality on the Philips. I have not noticed any dead pixels and the > brightness is uniform throughout. It has an easy-to-use joystick control and > a hard power switch. I have an ASUS GT 960 Strix video card running the > nVidia binary driver on Fedora 23 driving the monitor through a DisplayPort > cable. > > (*) Once every few months, I have to update the binary driver (it's not > automatically updated) when I lose X after a kernel update. Occasionally, > I'll see a flickering of a window that is not in the foreground. If I move > the mouse, the flickering will disappear, which has me suspect the video > driver and not the monitor. It's not frequent enough to be anything more > than a minor irritant. Neither of those things are particular to this > monitor. > > With a panel this large, I have not found any need for font-scaling. There > is no way I could read text on a 28" 4k monitor without font-scaling. It > would be hard to beat the price/performance of this monitor and with the > weaker Canadian dollar, monitor prices have been firm. You will not see this > monitor at this price very often. > > In short, it's a great buy if you've been thinking of upgrading to a 4k > monitor.
I assume you mean this: http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/philips-philips-40-4k-uhd-60hz-3ms-gtg-va-led-monitor-bdm4065uc-silver-black-bdm4065uc/10381634.aspx Is there any practical way to drive this from a Linux-based laptop that doesn't currently have an appropriate video card / output? (I don't consider "buy a new computer" to be a helpful answer: I'll be ready to do that in about 18 months. But I'll understand if the correct answer is "no." :-) -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
