Recent content by Amitu

VirtualLarry: > You should have done some research on whether your display of choice supported aspect-ratio-correct scaling or not. I've been bouncing this sentence around, up and down, left and right and cannot find any connection to what I've been saying all along. To repeat, the...

Itchrelief: > you prefer your images stretched and nonstandard 1. If image = text, yes. I'd like it to occupy my entire screen. Just curious, what letter(s) on yasasvy's wide screen you find out of shape or ugly, etc. Distances, proportions, texture, etc. 2. Please link me to the...

Besides offering thanks for your comments and interest, this is a quick post to make a single remark on one of the recurring subjects in this thread. You guys are talking about the 4:3 "VGA text" screen "stretch" on a wide-screen as something terribly incorrect, almost bordering on...

> I don't get what the problem is. VGA text mode is a standard ... It's my fault for creating confusion by using big words like VGA text mode, etc. I will restate the problem in as simple terms as possible. Whether people know or care about VGA, DOS, Linux text mode, all PC users should...

Hello, For the purposes of this post, I define VTM (VGA Text Mode) as the text that the Video BIOS of a video module displays on screen, _before_ any OS (Linux, Windows, etc.) or application (DOS, etc.) installs their graphics driver (for entering the "graphics" mode). Includes the BIOS...

Yes, BUT, DVI-A is a male connector on the _cable_. This plug "picks" the 5 analog female pins of the standard DVI-I female receptacle on the card. _All_ cards have the DVI female receptacle, which brings us back to square one: How is one to know for sure that on the card's DVI female...

Matthias, thank you very much. That's exactly the problem. How can I be sure that they are "mistaken" when this spec (DVI/A) is on the very label where the bar code and some other important info are found? Anyway, if there is somebody who should really know the difference between D/I and A...

Is the lack of the digital connection on DVI-A not practically important with today's digital flat panels?

I was browsing through the DVI video card section at NE and, as fate would have it, the little white label on one of the images of APOLLO GeForce FX5200 caught my wandering eye. It read "DVI/A" (i.e. a misleading, worthless, non-standard-recognized analog DVI). That got me to thinking, 1...