Re: wide monitors

For the love of god, make sure its 16:9 and not 16:10 like nearly all laptop 
screens are. Panorama/SNAP can have a bitch of a time driving those 
resolutions. 

My office monitor quit. Visiting the local stores I found that almost 
everything on sale was wide screen, which I guess to mean a 16x9 aspect 
ratio rather than 4x3. Do SNAP and Panorama drive these things correctly?

My concern is that the screen will fill up by distorting all pictures, 
fonts and icons -- bloating each of them sideways.

Yes, I believe so. Keep in mind that SNAP is ages old by now, and Panorama 
is tied to the display values sored in the VESA BIOS of your chipset, which 
more likely than not on a laptop, is buggered to hell, rendering any device 
driver that relies on VESA tables usless. You can use the Widescreen 
Activator hack for Panorama, but you need a supported chipset in order for 
that to work. Or perhaps, if you are lucky, and your desktop chipset is 
decent, you wont need to worry at all, because its VESA tables should be 
mostly sensible. Its luck of the draw, but if you are using a desktop, I'd 
wager it shoudln't be an issue, but check the return policy first. 

Hmmm. The Viewsonic mentioned is 16:10, one of its sellers says. I'm 
curious why, if most of the laptops are 16:10, are SNAP and Panorama 
designed to drive 16:9. Is that what some standard used to be?

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:50:49 UTC, ccolby@ipns.com (Craig Colby) wrote:

> My office monitor quit. Visiting the local stores I found that almost 
> everything on sale was wide screen, which I guess to mean a 16x9 aspect 
> ratio rather than 4x3. Do SNAP and Panorama drive these things correctly?
> 
I am viewing this on a ViewSonic VG2230wm running at 1680 x 1050 with 
SNAP.

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Lee W. Riemenschneider
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