Why is THINKPAD SHOWN UP ON   OS2HW?????????
Derek W. Keoughan wrote:
>
> mwizard99{at}comcast.net  wrote:
> > In <45B4CB1A.8030306{at}finnsoft.com 
> >, on 01/22/07
> > at 09:32 AM, "Derek W. Keoughan"  > said:
> >
> >> 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?
> >
> >> External VGA should match your laptop screen, with perhaps slight
> >> blurring if you're using extremely long VGA cables (as is often the 
> case
> >> with KVM switches, especially ones with cheap cables).
> >
> >> Your external panel may also be a slower refresh design than the
> >> built-in laptop screen, which would cause ghosting and blurriness,
> >> especially on fast-moving images.
> >
> >> Can't speak for the T42, as I have no experience with it, but perhaps
> >> it's a full-digital display, while the external VGA port would be
> >> digital (video memory) to analog (the signal down the cable) to 
> digital
> >> (within the external panel), so there's some loss of sharpness in the
> >> double conversion.
> >
> >> You're also comparing a 15" LCD and a 17" LCD at
the same native
> >> resolution - the pixel size on the 17" would be bigger,
which would 
> also
> >> introduce some graininess.
> >
> >> Hope this helps!
> >
> >> -Derek
> >
> > Perhaps you can recall that the LCD screens display less than stellar
> > results when used at their non-native resolution? I have not heard that
> > this problem has been resolved yet.
>
> Never will be.
>
> Quoted from above: "Both are always set at the default/native
> resolution of 1024 x 768."
>
> That's not the issue here. The screens match for pixel counts.
>
> > Each LCD screen created, has a native resolution at which it 
> displays its
> > best. The specs that come with the screen should share that information
> > with you. A normal CRT has a much wider range of resolutions that 
> display
> > quite crisply.
> >
> > Perhaps the native resolution on the 15"LCD is not the same as the 
> native
> > resolution for the 17"LCD device?
>
> Which is as I said... the pixels on the 17" will be larger, so 1024 of
> them across the screen will stretch further...
>
> -Derek
>
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