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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Advice for low cost 17" monitor..
Date: 6 Jul 1995 10:47:33 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net> wrote:
>% ... It repainted
>% the screen much quicker than any of the other monitors, including a
>% NEC 5 series (I forget just which one), and did so without the flicker.
>
>j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
>> This is a fairy-tale however. How should the monitor affect the time
>> the video card will require for repainting?
>
>Bzzt! Wrong snide remark! (Not often one gets to trip up Joerg, I have
>to gloat a *little* bit).
>
>Most modern monitors, including the CTX 1765, have "digital controls" that
>watch the incoming signal and try to sync on it. Various monitors take
>different amounts of time to recognize the signal and display the screen;
>most will blank the output to the tube during this time. The CTX 1765
>*I* have is certainly fairly quick in this respect.
But this is re-synchronizing (due to a video mode change), and not
re-painting.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)