On Saturday 23 August 2008 19:04:55 MHR wrote:
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com
wrote:
OTOH I got a new ViewSonic monitor, treating myself to one with a DV output. CentOS couldn't handle it and I had to got back to analogue :-(
I'm not entirely sure what this part of the thread has to do with the subject, but:
I got myself a new 22" 16x10 monitor, and I'm using the DVI cable (cleaner graphics, nicer picture), and the only "problem" I'm seeing is that it has a slow response coming out of power-down (screen-saver) state - it takes several seconds to bring up the login window, whereas the VGA cable used to give a pretty quick response (usually under 2 seconds) on this.
It was a small aside about the way that devices do/don't announce themselves, and the difficulties that OSs sometimes have in recognising them. I freely admit that although I've had the monitor for at least 6 months now I haven't tested to see whether the DV input is now supported in the kernel, so I don't know whether it is a driver problem or the 'announce' problem.
It's not significant, in detail terms, to the thread, but there is some correlation.
Anne