{"id":377,"date":"2008-06-16T09:48:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T07:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2008-06-16T09:48:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T07:48:25","slug":"twentyfour-inches-any-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2008\/06\/16\/twentyfour-inches-any-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Twentyfour inches any good?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My 19″ (Acer) LCD screen at work died the other day. It started flickering a lot and when I tried to switch it off\/on to see if the flickering would go away, it wouldn’t go back on again.<\/p>\n

I got a lowly 1280×1024 screen to borrow until my new screen would arrive and I got to experience that using the panning screen thing of Kubuntu<\/a> (my desktop would remain 1600×1200 since I preferred not to reboot or even shutdown my X) could easily get the mouse coordinates confused and then I had to hurry up to the upper left corner to “reset” the coordinates and then I could again click on the correct items on the screen…\"an<\/p>\n

Very well, I got a 24″ 240BW Philips. This being a widescreen thing (they’re really taking over the world, those widescreen versions) it prefers 1920×1200 resolution. My computer had one of them intel graphics chips (82Q963\/Q965) on the board and dang, I got no good resolution no matter how I poked the xorg.conf file. After trying out 915resolution,<\/a> I learned that the graphics card couldn’t in fact show the necessary resolution so I had to insert a card that can. I got a dreaded Nvidia and now I’m using the evil proprietary drivers to get DVI at this resolution…<\/p>\n

But I must say that with my 19″ at 1600×1200 and my 20″ at home at the same resolution, bumping up the screen size yet another notch to 24″ makes me think 1920×1200 is kind of on the low side for such a huge screen. I did a quick check on my favourite tech stuff compare site (prisjakt.nu<\/a>) but it seems there’s no screens with higher resolutions at this size?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My 19″ (Acer) LCD screen at work died the other day. It started flickering a lot and when I tried to switch it off\/on to see if the flickering would go away, it wouldn’t go back on again. I got a lowly 1280×1024 screen to borrow until my new screen would arrive and I got … Continue reading Twentyfour inches any good?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[221,222,220],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-floss","tag-lcd","tag-nvidia","tag-xorg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}