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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: SVGA monitors ...
Message-ID: <1990Jun5.203220.23953@bach.amd.com>
Date: 5 Jun 90 20:32:20 GMT
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In article <1990Jun5.160335.29585@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> peter@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Peter Wu) writes:
|Be sure to try any monitor with your
|card before buying - I got the Seiko CM1440 because the specs looked
|so good but they seem to have a non-standard video cable and my
|Paradise SVGA card doesn't recognize that the monitor is capable of
|800x600. One other note on the Seiko: it doesn't seem as bright as

I have a 1440 hooked up to a Paradise 1024 VGA and it works fine, in
fact, it works very well at 800x600 and I used to use it that way
all the time until Windows 3.0 came out. As soon as I get a driver
I'll do it again.

|some of the others - I vaguely remember some inverse relationship
|between dot pitch and brightness.

I have no problem with the brightness. There are in fact some VGA
cards that will drive it hard enough that I can crank up the brightness
to the point where the monitor shuts down, presumably to protect the
power supply. This is at a point where it is much brighter than I
would want anyway.

(I used to try many different VGA cards with this monitor)

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