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from: Dale A Cook
date: 2007-01-22 13:59:26
subject: Re: [OS2HW] Vid quality

Should this be on "Thinkpad"   instead of  OS2hardware(OS2HW)???????

inkleput{at}isp.com wrote:
>
> I fed the second vid output from my T42 to my stand alone 17" LCD. The
> T42 is a 15" and had the most basic video card for that year. Both are
> always set at the default/native resolution of 1024 x 768. Everything
> worked straight up. No searching for bits and pieces or setting odd
> settings.
>
> But the quality of the 17" display was pretty bad. It had the
> appearance almost of printing done on poor or damp paper that let the
> ink bleed out from the edges of the characters a little. Just fuzzy,
> diffused edges. Very bad compared to what it does very crisply with my
> desktop - it's normal operation.
>
> If the T42 had had the second or third step up in card quality would
> this diffused look have been eliminated, or is this a driver problem?
>
> Jim L, via the operating system it took IBM 15 years to kill.
>
> -- 
> "Feel inadequate? Destroy stuff and kill people." Confucious, 
> Socrates, Benjamin Franklin.
>
>  



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