LCD recommendations please

[Tim]

On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 16:43 +0000, John Horne wrote:
> I have tried a few but mostly I think the problem seems to be that the
> definition/contrast between white and grey is non-existent.

This is not really a Linux issue.  LCD monitors are rather pathetic in
contrast range, in general.  You'll probably need a quite expensive LCD
monitor to come even close to the quality of a moderately priced CRT
monitor.

What looks bad on Linux will probably also look bad on some other OS,
unless that OS has special drivers to massage the video signal to suit
the monitor (e.g. change the gamma curve). 

You can do some of that on Linux too, if your video card drivers support
it; though you'll probably have to tweak by hand.  Look in your
xorg.conf file, find out what driver it uses, read the man page on it,
see what options you've got to play with.

But first, be sure to play with the screen itself (angle of view, turn
brightness down a bit more and contrast up, etc.).  You also nearly
always need to be running the display at a certain resolution.  LCDs
don't usually run well on more than one particular X by Y pixel
resolution.

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