Kieth Posted May 17, 2007 Report Share Posted May 17, 2007 I have to buy a new monitor, and it will probably be a flat screen LCD monitor. I've googled around trying to find which brands/types go with Linux, but have be unsuccessful. Can all work with mandrivia? Do I have to worry about my graphics card, too? Below is my graphics card and my system. Kieth Identification Vendor: ?ATI Technologies Inc Description: ?RV280 [Radeon 9200] Media class: ?VGA compatible controller # uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.17-14mdv #1 SMP Wed May 9 21:11:43 MDT 2007 i686 AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3000+ GNU/Linux Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted May 17, 2007 Report Share Posted May 17, 2007 I bought a gericom monitor, which whilst not listed in Mandriva, I can use Generic LCD and it'll work fine. I'm limited to 1024x768 though with my monitor, because that is it's maximum resolution. Just check your specs, you should be fine. However, I would recommend that what you do is look at what monitors you are thinking of, and then see if they are in the list of monitors within Mandriva. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted May 17, 2007 Report Share Posted May 17, 2007 monitors are a fairly standard thing, and generally, don't need drivers or any software support of any form -- it's up to the graphics card. So you should be fine with any monitor that plugs into your graphics card. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 17, 2007 Report Share Posted May 17, 2007 There *might* be some issues displaying framebuffer at some of them, if you are using just the DVI connector. Using the old standard VGA (or both VGA and DVI), all of them should work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted May 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2007 OK, thanks. I bought a Captiva TFT active matrix, 19 inch, with a 15-pin D-Sub connector, w/speakers. It works great. Kieth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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