Re: Anyone working with a 24" monitor?

[John Haxby <jch scalix com>]

Mark Taber wrote:

> I'm shopping 24" monitors, and I'm leaning towards the Dell 2405.  
> Anyone working successfully with one of these on RHEL 4 WS?  I'm 
> shopping video cards too (I'll go NVidia), since my GeForce 5300 
> doesn't support 1920x1200.

I used to have a Samsung 240T which was very nice.   I needed a custom 
modeline, but it wasn't difficult to find with Google.    The nice thing 
about the Samsung screen was that it has a very wide viewing angle (170° 
horizontal, 140° vertical if I remember rightly, the newer models are 
better, brighter and faster) and that the colour is very uniform across 
the display.

DVI was a must really -- you could use analogue but some cards had some 
ghosting on black on white text.  More expensive cards tended to be 
better in that respect but were never as crisp as DVI.   (I know that 
because the DVI input died on my monitor shortly before I was made 
redundant so I tried a variety of cards that were lying around.)

The office I was in at the time was very brightly lit and there wasn't a 
problem seeing the screen unless the sun was full on it or in my eyes.  
I tried putting sunglasses on but the ones I had then were polarising 
and the polarising filter was at exactly 90° to the polarizing filter on 
the screen so everything went black.   Impressively, totally, black!

jch