But it seem to me that in general, operating an LCD monitor at lower than maximum resolution would induce some distortion (just due to the mathematics of it).
My experience is that it introduces black borders around the sides. Your results may vary.
Well, lady, I must say-- You're my kinda stupid.
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DCJensen - Feb 06, 2005 6:04:27 pm PST #1592 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
§ ita § - Feb 06, 2005 6:34:40 pm PST #1593 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tommy, my Viewsonic does that too. Reinstalling the drivers intermittently makes it go away. Also, one in every four or so time I boot it, the display is terribly frelled. But another boot and its fine.
tommyrot - Feb 06, 2005 6:38:16 pm PST #1594 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
tommy, my Viewsonic does that too. Reinstalling the drivers intermittently makes it go away.
Huh.
Crap.
Apparantly there are no Mac drivers for monitors. Or something.
Gandalfe - Feb 06, 2005 9:40:30 pm PST #1595 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I'm debating dropping the expensive Charter cable and internet and going to Qwest DSL.
If you do this, email me at the profile address. I work for Qwest, and, um, can get a few bucks if you do.
Make sure that any DSL modem you get will handle the following:
PPPoA (If you choose Qwest or MSN as an ISP. Other ISPs can use another protocol, if they choose)
DMT (as opposed to CAP)
Authentication (To pass a Username and password.)
The Cisco 678 (NOT 675) will do all of these, as is stable as hell. The downside is that they don't actually make it anymore, so you have to eBay it. Not overly cheap. I also hear good things about the Zoom modem. Qwest sells an ActionTec w/ built in wireless for $60, or rent for $5/mo.
AHEM.
Anyway, email me if you want. Also, anyone else in the 14-state Qwest region should email me, too, if they want . . . .
Jessica - Feb 07, 2005 6:45:34 am PST #1596 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Is Gmail down for everyone, or just me?
Sue - Feb 07, 2005 6:47:14 am PST #1597 of 10003
hip deep in pie
I can get into gmail, Jess.
Jessica - Feb 07, 2005 7:05:48 am PST #1598 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Huh. I've been getting a "Server Error: Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We're sorry for the inconvenience." message all morning.
(And yes, I've cleared the cache and restarted the browser. A few times. [eta: sorry if this sounded snippy -- just trying to avoid the inevitable "Did you clear your cache?" x-post])
Gandalfe - Feb 07, 2005 8:06:07 am PST #1599 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
I got in just fine.
Jessica - Feb 07, 2005 8:11:44 am PST #1600 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I finally got in, after 4 hours of server errors. Sadly, nobody was trying desperately to get in touch with me.
tommyrot - Feb 07, 2005 1:57:06 pm PST #1601 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
For ita and other interested folk:
re: Viewsonic VX2000 LCD DVI monitors -
an incompatibility exists between VX2000 series monitors and NVidia 52xx and 56xx video cards when connected via DVI.
Apparantly the Windows driver has a workaround, but Linux users are SOL:
Known WINDOZE XP workaround: After many calls to Viewsonic I was able to get through to a sane engineer. He was able to reproduce the problem and found a workaround in Windows. That workaround was to change the timing from "Auto" to "DMT" (Discrete Monitor Timing) and to enable Horizontal Cloning. After that was done the card seemed to remember those settings and I could leave it on the DVI connector and actually be able to see my text consoles and POST screens etc...
Doesn't really help me, as the Mac Mini uses "ATI Radeon 9200 with 32MB of DDR SDRAM with AGP 4X support"
ita, what graphics card are you using?