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- From: dvc@eagle.hr.att.com (David Van Cleef)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] Advice on System Wanted
- In-Reply-To: galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:35:07 GMT
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- >>>>> On Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:35:07 GMT, galbrait@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (GALBRAITH JOHN) said:
- >>What kind of monitor should I get. I want a 14" NI .28 pitch...what
- >>manufacturers are good?
- >
- >I got a "CTX" monitor. It looks OK, but I've only had it for 6 weeks,
- >so I can't talk about reliability.
- >
- GJ> I can. My CTX 1560 monitor broke while using XFree86. Although I think
- GJ> that it was because I had abusive settings in the Xconfig file, but
- GJ> I can't say for sure. (I got a replacement monitor and duplicated the
- GJ> MS windows retrace signals exactly with the oscilloscope in XFree86. So
- GJ> far, I have had no problems.)
- GJ> However, if you read recent computer mags they all hate the CTX
- GJ> due to fuzzy corners (confirmed by me.) Also, tech support is weak, with
- GJ> a turnaround time of over 2 weeks for a broken monitor. (Most other companies
- GJ> are 48 hours or less.)
- GJ> My advice : look at something else. (However, there are some things
- GJ> I like, but I don't think these features are unique to CTX.)
-
- Seconded. I lost a CTX 1561NI while trying to get 1152x900 interlaced
- mode (which I calculated the numbers for using the specs in the back
- of the monitor's manual: they weren't exceeded.) The picture wouldn't
- fit on the screen (about 1/4" of rollover), and shortly thereafter,
- the screen cut out completely. (This was with the X386 1.3 included
- with BSDI gamma 0.9.4.)
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