Hello all -

My grandfather's birthday is coming up soon and we would like to get him a flat panel monitor. My grandfather uses Mandrake/Mandriva 10.1. He presently uses some small and very old CRT monitor. As the most Linux saavy among us I was elected to make sure the flat panel we get him works with his Linux computer.

His computer is running on only integrated video and I know I need to get him a flat panel that has the old analog connection option. My question is, what danger is there that a flat panel monitor might not work? Is there some brand of flat panels that do not work with Mandrake/Mandriva 10.1?

Any suggestions on brands, or particular models?

Thanks,

Rundi

I use a Sceptre X9G-Naga III flat-screen (LCD) monitor and it works great with Mandriva, I'm using Mandriva Linux Free.

as far as the "old analog connection option" is concerned, you can get an adapter to go from one to the other. Don't know about the monitor though, as I still use crt's, but I will be changing later this year, so I'll keep watching.

I have a Westinghouse LCM-19v1 ... Worked out of the box at it's top density 1280x1024

I do have an ATI graphics card, tho, so I'm not sure how much of that is due to the card, and how much to the monitor.

From what I can find (which isn't much) most flat panels should work. As for the analog connection, you can get a dvi to vga connector however I don't know if this works ok in linux as adapters can sometimes play with the voltage levels.

Found this with google:
I doubt some of thes conclusions. AFAIK, many (most?) flat panels are
fixed-sync, fixed-res devices from the video card's perspective. And as
long as you use EXACTLY the right modelines in the conffile, you can use a
regular X server. (I use non-fbdev X servers on my Mac notebook and my Alpha,
both of which have fixed-sync monitors).
--
Henry House

On site: http://www.lugod.org/mailinglists/ar.../msg00028.html
Hope this helps

I'm using a MAG Innovision 17" LCD monitor (LT716s) with a Compaq EVO, video card ? running Mandriva 2006. Works great !

Hi, I'm using a Mitsubishi DiamondDigital 17" DV117

It came with the adapter mentioned above. It has a standard refresh of 60Hz and a native resolution of 1280x1024

It was cheap $300Aud and works well.

Thanks for all the responses.

We've settled on a Samsung-SyncMaster 19" Flat-Panel TFT-LCD Monitor-931B so if anyone has had any problem with that monitor, please let me know.

Hopefully all should be fine.

I have a 19 inch polyview V396
My computer is dated and used 8Meg shared memory which wasn't enough to run screen at its full size.
I gave it more (12Meg) and away it went 1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz

Sounds like grandad is pretty switched on anyway ..just put on the card this site url and he can view and discuss at his pleasure.

Using Mandriva 2006

That's what I have and so far it's worked great with Linux. I wouldn't trade it for anything else.