Re: [TCLUG:18815] Flat Screen LCD

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Bill Layer wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> >  > Hi. I'm soon going to get one of those flat LCD displays, and a
> >  video card for it. Now I know that they Require a special digital
> >  video card as opposed to the regular analog boxlike monitors.
> 
> I'm not sure who told you _that_ but it's not generally true IMO. At work
> I use a Dell 1700FP which is a 17" LCD flatpanel diaplay. It runs off of
> any analog video card to which I have tried connecting it, like the ATI
> RagePro in my desktop.

right, but there are two different kinds of LCDs, analog and digital. 
The displays that understand analog signals can plug into any standard
vga card.  Digital displays need something different.  Matrox, for
example, sells a special connector that you can plug into some of their
cards to get digital output.  It all depends on what kind of LCD you
want to have...

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