Will Linux MEPIS 3.43 work with an LCD monitor (Dell 1907)?

Or more generally, can Linux support LCD monitors?

Yes, I've posted in the official MEPIS forums and am awaiting a reply.

Yes, of course I will be contacting Dell on this, but if any of you have ever spoken with Dell, you know it is hard as heck to get a straight answer....without having your phone connection dropped 18 times....that is why I am posting here, to see if anyone knows anything.

Thanks!

I use a 30" dell lcd tv as my monitor on one of my machines. works great.

generally, monitor support seems pretty good. id be more worried about what video card it is.

laptops use lcds...

Hi.

If your video card is supported, then yes, your LCD will work. LCDs just use a 60Hz refresh rate, and apart from that, they are identical to CRT monitors as far as Linux is concerned.

Dave

ilikejam --

If I understand correctly, since my current nVidia Geforce card works fine under my current dual boot (Win XP Pro / MEPIS 3.43) with my CRT monitor, then I should be ok?

Thanks to everyone who replied!

Yup.

You'll just have to change your refresh rates in xorg.conf, but you'd have to do that with any monitor.

Dave

I use a 17" lcd (LG) with ubuntu. (Mepis is based on ubuntu so they should behave the same). I'm also fairly sure that Linux doesn't care or even know what kind of monitor is being used.

I had a laptop once (broken now) that required special modlines in xorg.conf to be able to run past 640x480 resolution. From my experience, LCD monitors are a bit more tricky to get working on linux than CRTs are, but that may have been an isolated case. Anyway, if you cannot get the LCD to work any other way, it may be beneficial to read up on modlines in the configuration. The laptop I'm on now didn't require any special modlines, however it DID require a hack for the graphics card to use 1280x800 resolution... but thats a different story.

Would someone tell me what "xorg" is...??? Where do I find it? How do I change the refresh rate (from what CRT refresh rate to what LCD refresh rate)?

Thanks.

/still a Linux n00b

Xorg is the name of the video server. It loads in a configuration file when it starts up. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

The xorg.conf file has it's own man page: "man xorg.conf"
If you have a graphical video setup program, you may be able to select a suitable monitor selection. Look for "lcd" with the native resolution of your monitor.

If you can't find your resolution, you can resort to using the "gtf" program to generate a mode line. When I used SuSE 9.3, I needed to do this for my Laptop, because SaX didn't have a selection for 1280x800 resolution.

I used the command "gtf 1280 800 56 -x" and used that modeline in the "Monitor" section.