Once again I'm going to presume upon your collective good nature.
My home computer has an intermittent video problem. The monitor is a
NEC Multisync FE700+ connected to some kind of video card. The
symptoms are that sometimes when the video is restored after the
screensaver has kicked in the image is very bright and lacks contrast.
Focus also seems to be affected. For a while, powering down the
monitor for half an hour or so would take care of the problem. The
last few days I've had to power down the whole computer and even then
sometimes the problem persisted.
So it's clearly time to get a new video setup, even if I don't like
the flat screen monitors. I've had this stuff since ca. 2000 and it
doesn't owe me a thing.
Questions:
1. How do currently made monitors plug into the CPU? Is it by USB
connector? (I'm assuming I really don't need a video card, but maybe I
do.)
2. What's going to be involved in getting a two-odd year old version
of SuSE Linux to recognize the new video configuration and work
properly with it?
3. Any suggestions for specific hardware?
4. What else do I need to know but am not smart enough to ask?
Thanks for your help.
Howard Sanner
apxl...@terrier.ampexguy.com
