From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 23 21:15:08 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10633106566C for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:15:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emailrob@emailrob.com) Received: from mx04.dls.net (mx04.dls.net [216.145.245.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E179C8FC0A for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:15:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [216.145.235.21] (helo=emailrob.com) by mx04.dls.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NCgFW-0001So-89; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:15:06 -0600 Message-ID: <4B0AFB5B.60300@emailrob.com> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:15:07 +0000 From: spellberg_robert User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= , fbsd_chat References: <200911200921.nAK9LKpf063202@lurza.secnetix.de> <4B06DD70.8030308@emailrob.com> <1AE59099C6D80E41BEB64A1768AFB4EA30ED5BAF@msxmbxnsprd18.acct.upmchs.net> <4B07451E.8020907@emailrob.com> <866393vekq.fsf@ds4.des.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: lcd monitor manufacturer recommendation request X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:15:08 -0000 i thank you, sir. Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > spellberg_robert writes: > >>Person, Roderick writes: >> >>>You could get an LCD monitor that only has the 15 pin connection, >>>then you can choose refresh rate and play with modelines. At least >>>on the Viewsonic LCD I have which is 5 years old I had to do that to >>>get it working. That is if you really want to keep doing such >>>things. >> >>it isn't that i --want-- to keep doing this; it is that i --can-- do >>so, if i desire. > > > A CRT has an electrom beam that sweeps across the screen left to right > and top to bottom, and the horizontal and vertical sync frequencies > control how fast the beam moves. An LCD panel does not have an electron > beam; it has discrete, individually adressable pixels. If you insist on > hooking it up to an analog port, it will have to convert the analog > signal to a digital signal in order to display it, and you will get > sampling artifacts, aliasing etc. I don't care how good you are at > writing modelines; you will never come up with one that looks better > than what you will get with a digital connection. > > DES this was another clue that i needed to shift my paradigm. however, it has an un_spoken assumption regarding format. rob