ViewSonic VA2012wb

[Carl Parrish]

Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> Just wanted to follow up on this for posterity.
>
> I ended up with the eVGA GeForce 6200 with subject monitor.
>
> First problem was that my power supply (300w, stated miniumum) didn't
> have enough amps on the 12v rail (15a, needed 18a). EVGA technician
> was extremely helpful diagnosing this, and I give high marks to
> everyone on their support staff that I talked with. I bought a
> UltraXFinity 500W PS from Fry's ($70 w/ $50 MIR), and they work fine
> together.
>
> Next hurdle was the configuring X. Thanks to Carl's xorg.conf
> settings, this was a breeze. Until I discovered that I couldn't adjust
> the resolution to my liking. It seemed like it just wouldn't take the
> specified resolutions. Then
> I realized that the specified driver was (the generic) 'vesa'. After
> googling a bit, I found that the nvidia driver is named 'nv'. When I
> changed that, voila. Everything was worked well.
>
> This was on FC5. The bottom bar was a little beyond the bottom of the
> display, so I selected the "Auto Image Adjust" function on the monitor
> menu, and it straightened right up. Cool.
>
> Then I tried Ubuntu 5.10. Same X config settings I used in FC5. Two
> problems:
> 1) the bottom bar was off the screen, and I couldn't make it right.
> AIA monitor function didn't fix it, and there's no manual vertical
> size adjustment, only vertical position. This left me at a loss.
> 2) the fonts on Ubuntu were very fuzzy. I noticed that Ubunto's X
> configuration specifies various font files, while Fedora uses a font
> server. Don't know if this changed in Ubuntu 6.06 or not, but I found
> Ubuntu's fonts basically unusable at 1680x1050 (the monitor's
> recommended resolution).
>
> Then I tried CentOS4.3. No nv driver on this distro. I didn't try to
> bring it over from FC5. I was having other thoughts by now.
>
> I'm wondering at this point, why do I have 3 distros on my desktop
> machine? Granted, it's kinda nice to be able to check out other
> distros' config files on occasion, but is it worth it? I'm thinking,
> what's the point? I have CentOS on my server, so I really don't need
> it on my desktop any more. I have Ubuntu on my notebook (as well as
> CentOS and that other one), so do I really need it on my desktop machine?
>
> I've concluded that it's not worth the effort, and that it's just not
> productive. I'll leave the free space on my HD, and will probably use
> it to try other distros as I get the itch. Otherwise, I'm settling on
> FC5 for the time being.
>
> That's my story, and I'm sticking to it! ;)
>
Anyone else noticing that the DVI connection isn't working? I'm at a
lost to what the problem is I've tried changing monitors (I ended up
buying two VA2012wb, one on a computer that just has VGA). My graphic
card has a DVI connection with a VGA converter using the converter works
fine. so I don't think the problem is the graphics card. I've changed
cords, that doesn't work. I have to assume its a xorg conf somewhere
because if I stay in run level 3 DVI works fine. but as soon as I try to
turn the GUI on I get *nothing* on the view screen. Even if I reboot. I
don't remember exactly what drastic thing I had to do to reset it and
get back to runlevel 3 but that would work. I can't really think of any
reason why I *need* DVI but since my card supports it and the monitors
are supposed to I feel like I should be using it. Also I've given up on
multi distros on one computer as well. I was going to try to use Xen to
get FC5 and openSuse 10.1 running on the same box. I ended up just
running FC5 on my box and using FreeNX to run Suse 10.1 on my wife's so
I can play with both from my desktop.