On Sun, 16 Apr 2006, steve szmidt wrote:
> In your case factory DVI would have to be a better solution than the VGA one.
> Being me I ould have climed behind or moved this out so I could test it
> properly. I don't like runing my monitor at anything less than optimum. You
> spend all this time looking at it...
'Specially with an LCD monitor. I used to have six or seven resolutions,
from 1536x1152 down to ?240x180?, set up in X so I could ctrl-alt-[+-]
through them. (Faster to do switch res than do whatever to magnify
something, and it doesn't affect the apps at all.) But this monitor's specs
are tighter than my last one's, and LCD monitors don't look so good at
non-native resolutions, so now I have only three resolutions defined, all
small-integer-ratio divisors of the native one.
> I had this friend who had a number of monitors setup on a stand. As soon as I
> walked in I saw he was running a refresh rate of 65 Hz, which is verly low. I
> asked him why he was running at such low refresh rate as it was clearly
> flickering. He had not noticed!
Eh, some people don't perceive flicker. I used to run the aforementioned
CRT at 59.x Hz. Drove my dad crazy. As long as I kept my desktop
reasonably dark, it was OK. Lower res => lower dotclock => less heat from
vid card. IIRC, heat (and power use) is proportional to clock rate squared,
which means it's proportional to refresh rate squared.
> In fact he got a bit upset as he had been happy until I pointed it out. Of
> course the solution was simple.
Ignorance is bliss. At least in some cases.
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