ViewSonic VA2012wb

[Eric "Shubes"]

Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Carl Parrish wrote:
>> So I just got a ViewSonic VA2012wb from Costco (great price there)
>> It took me longer than I want to admit to get it working so I want to
>> post the important settings in /etc/X11/xorg.conf (at least in Fedora
>> Core 5), for the achives
>>
>> Section "Monitor"
>>         Identifier   "Monitor0"
>>         VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
>>         ModelName    "VA2012wSERIE"
>>         DisplaySize  430        270
>>  ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC:
>>         HorizSync    30.0 - 94.0
>>         VertRefresh  50.0 - 75.0
>>         Option      "dpms"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Screen"
>>         Identifier "Screen0"
>>         Device     "Videocard0"
>>         Monitor    "Monitor0"
>>         DefaultDepth     24
>>         SubSection "Display"
>>                 Viewport   0 0
>>                 Depth     16
>>                 Modes    "800x600" "640x480"
>>         EndSubSection
>>         SubSection "Display"
>>                 Viewport   0 0
>>                 Depth     24
>>                 Modes    "1680x1050" "1280x800"
>>         EndSubSection
>> EndSection
>>
>> DisplaySize seems to be the key setting. I don't know how much setting
>> the others helped or not (since the monitor just didn't work at all
>> until the DisplaySize was set) however with these settings everything
>> seems to be working.
>>
> Thanks for this, Carl. I picked one up yesterday at Costco ($299).
> 
> I haven't tried it yet with my computer, but I figure I might want a 
> video card upgrade. My (relatively old) MB has onboard video (128-bit 
> 2D/3D 100MHz AGP V2.0 compliant), and an AGP1 4X (AGP 2.0) slot. The MB 
> manual says the onboard video will support resolutions up to 1920x1440 
> Hi-colors, up to 2048x2048 texture size and virtual screen up to 
> 4096x4096 with a maximum of 64M shared memory frame buffer. I don't know 
> what texture size or virtual screen means, but it appears that the 
> resolution would be adequate.
> 
> As I begin my quest, I'm wondering if anyone here has any advice or 
> recommendations.
> 
> TIA.
> 
Ok, I've narrowed it down to eVGA 256-A8-N341-L2 Geforce 6200 256MB 
64-bit DDR AGP 4X/8X Video Card. Newegg has it for $45.99 after $10 rebate.

Two questions:
1) Any gotchas?
2) Will this card be a noticeable improvement? I'm assuming that my 
onboard will do 1680x1050 wide format.

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-Eric 'shubes'