Looking for LCD Recommendations

[Chris Pepper]

At 7:51 AM -0700 2003/07/28, Brian D. Moffet wrote:
>At 08:49 AM 7/28/2003 -0500, M. L. Dodson wrote:
>>Stephen J. Roznowski writes:
>>  > I'm looking to replace my 19" monitor with an 18"+ LCD screen.
>>  >
>>  > Anyone got some good recommendations for what is currently on the
>>  > market? Any brands to avoid?

>I own a ViewSonic VX900, 
>http://www.viewsonic.com/products/lcd_vx900.htm which I purchased to 
>use with 4 computers through a KVM switch (the four computers are 2 
>SGI machines, a FreeBSD box, and a windows laptop.)  So far, since 
>April or so, I haven't had a single problem with it, and I haven't 
>even found a dead pixel.  It handles the sync-on-green that the O2 
>and Octane want, and handles the Matrox G200 (old card) well under 
>FreeBSD.

	A general note: we've had trouble with LCDs on KVMs. I think 
Suns in particular tend to pick non-LCD-friendly resolutions (sync 
rates) when they can't detect the monitor directly at boot. With 
CRTs, they seem to pick a resolution that the CRT can handle 
(1152x900 at 75Hz?), but I have to switch the KVM to booting systems 
long enough for them to probe the monitor or the LCD doesn't work. I 
have similar trouble with a Windows PC switching to an unsupported 
signal format, presumably when the screensaver kicks in.


						Chris Pepper
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