Sean Middleditch » 2007 » June
ncm:
I have a SyncMaster 206BW and my roommate has the 226BW. Both of our monitors look gorgeous with the default X and GNOME settings on Ubuntu. I can’t imagine that the 205BW is that different. I’m using DVI (NVIDIA 6600) and my roommate is using VGA (Intel GMA 3000).
Looking at my old monitor, a 172T SyncMaster LCD, the screen was always beautiful, on both VGA and DVI using either NVIDIA cards or SIS integrated chipsets. I recently moved it from my home to my office, running some ancient Matrox Millenium II card over VGA, and sure enough, it looks like shit.
Moral of the story? It might not be the monitor that’s at fault if things look like crap.