lcd monitors and linux

[Bob Hemus]

Bruce Marshall wrote:

>On Thursday 27 March 2003 19:02 pm, el lodger wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:11:37 -0500
>>
>>Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Gee Collins, we agree on something!!  I too recommend Viewsonic and
>>>I'm using a Viewsonic VE800 (18inch) LCD monitor as I type this.
>>>Connecting it to SuSE 8.0 was no problem... it self configured
>>>itself and you are right, it wants to run at its max resolution of
>>>1280x1024.
>>>
>>>
>>>The look and feel of it 'might' be a bit better than a tube monitor
>>>but not enough for me to really be worth the difference in price.
>>>
>>>(and here I am with a gentoo CD I'm going to play with and you're
>>>off playing with Slackware...  (my first linux distro) )  What comes
>>>around,
>>>
>>Marshall, let me know how the Xconfig goes with your gentoo!
>>el lodger
>>
>
>Well maybe Collins or someone else can tell me this...  
>
>I downloaded the 194MB cd to do the install but I only have a 56KB dialup 
>line (24/7 tho) and I'm wondering what kind of time it is going to take 
>to get it all together?  People seem to say that it takes broadband in 
>which case it may not even be a starter.  But I think I'll at least get 
>it started so I can see what it looks like.  Every night I could load up 
>a pretty large chunk of it.
>
>Am I crazy?  (to try gentoo...)
>
>
Use wget and several all nighters?
Bob