Re: RE: [Nolug] Old monitor

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:18, jdtiede@bellsouth.net wrote:
> It's early VGA, not EGA. I got my acronyms mixed up--I meant EISA/ISA, not EIDE.

With all the TLAs (and even FLAs) floating around, it's so easy to
mix them up...

It just occurred to me: 17" monitors are *so* cheap nowadays (and
15" monitors are *pathetically* cheap, why not buy a new monitor?

Even a 15" monitor will be bigger than the ZCM-1492...

Also, "Linux 8.0"? No such thing? Do you mean RedHat, Mandrake
or SuSE???

Ron

> ============================================================
> From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> Date: 2002/12/09 Mon AM 10:01:07 EST
> To: NOLUG ML <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> Subject: Re: RE: [Nolug] Old monitor
>
> On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 08:49, jdtiede@bellsouth.net wrote:
> > I have already tried 640x480. That didn't work either.
>
> Is it even a VGA monitor? Could it be EGA?
>
> Also, what is "EIDE video"?
>
> > ============================================================
> > From: "Chuck" <ohchucki@bellsouth.net>
> > Date: 2002/12/06 Fri PM 06:28:53 EST
> > To: <nolug@joeykelly.net>
> > Subject: RE: [Nolug] Old monitor
> >
> > I'm pretty sure the monitor will display correctly if you change the
> > display resolution. Start off with 640x480 and move up resolutions
> > incrementally.
> >
> >
> > Chuck
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net] On
> > Behalf Of jdtiede@bellsouth.net
> > Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 3:08 PM
> > To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> > Subject: [Nolug] Old monitor
> >
> >
> > My late father's Zenith ZCM-1492 (late 80s?) worked o.k. for me on older
> > equipment, i.e., using EISA video cards, but since I've upgraded to
> > motherboards that take only PCI and AGP cards, it works during Linux 8.0
> > setup, then degenerates to meaningless horizontal lines. It does the
> > same thing on my other computer under W2K. Both have FIC AD11 mobos,
> > Athlon 1600+ CPUs and PCI video cards (plain vanilla). Is there any way
> > around this problem, or do I have to replace the monitor to use with
> > newer cards?
> > I remember that several years ago it wouldn't work with his then-new
> > HP Pavilion so I switched monitors with him, as I was then using an EIDE
> > video.
> > My Sony 420GS works fine with both PCI cards.
> > I have two AT boxes with mobos and 300MHz chips which worked when I
> > took them out of service and a box of ISA-EISA cards if anyone wants to
> > trade for a monitor that will work with my PCI cards.

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