This is like having to throw you you favorite old chair that was soooo much more confortable that any others you have.

Yesterday, my workstation's video monitor broke.  It happened suddenly, it was working normally until I head a crackling sound and the screen went black.  I replaced it with an older monitor that I had in storage.  The maximun screen resolution of the replacement monitor is not as great as the one that it is replacing and the replacement monitor has a very different color temprature, brightness, and contrast range, not to mention the face of the its picture tube is rounder that the one that it is replacing.

So what?  Just adjust the settings.  Well I did, and I am still fine tuning those setting.  There is also the adjustment needed to the software.  Reconfiguring X Windows and the frame buffer settings was a breeze.  Edit the boot script so that it knows the correct resolution to run the framebuffer at and edit the X Windows configuration to add a new monitor section with the refresh setting of the replacement monitor and set that monitor section as being the default one to be use when starting up X.  ...and I was up and running in less than five minutes.  MS Windows is a different story, I am still having problems making it handle the replacement monitor correctly.  Until I get Windows convinced that the monitor can work at 1024x768, I am stuck with a 640x480 resolution screen when running Windows.

I have found that after eight year or so of using it, I have become so used to the feel of that monitor that this one just feels so strange to me.  This is a good monitor and was a splendid one when it was new, so I am happy with it.   BUT  I miss my old "chair"!

Pangor

I'm not using linux because, at last, I use more M$ application all the time, but I've my mandrake and slackware discs here...

I put my eyes on a 19'' lcd monitor at a discount price here, less than 300 €... Maybe   ...

My actual 17'' monitor works well but it's a very cheap thing, it has a very low refresh rate, I'm not totally convinced about Lcd monitors...

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I put my eyes on a 19'' lcd monitor at a discount price here, less than 300 €... Maybe   ...

My actual 17'' monitor works well but it's a very cheap thing, it has a very low refresh rate, I'm not totally convinced about Lcd monitors...

I use a Laptop now for everything with a LCD screen and would never go back. My next desktop will have LCD.

@ pangor... I know what you mean. It only takes a little change to make the whole system feel unfamiliar and wierd. We're strange creatures of habit really

How true.   By now I have gotten over the strangeness, but I still miss the extra screen space.

Pangor

PS. I just corrected some typos include the incorrectly spelling "Pangor"  

Will that accomplish your objective?

I never will change my running system  
By the way, no money for upgrading = no upgrading = no stress = happyness  

I upgraded a little my system 2 weeks ago (bread and water for dinner for the next three months     ... )

Do what I did. Buy a high end and wait for it to go out of date in 6 months.
Have you tried a HD TV for a monitor? Mine looks great on a 42 inch Plasma. A guy I know has one and we hooked it up to it. Not to shabby.

I forgot what we were talking about.

It's okay Posy, I"m sure you would rather be doing Tormies laundry than listening to us ramble on  

I know what you mean Pangor, I can't stand even using another computer because it feels so strange. I used to use my bf's computer sometimes and I hated it, nothing seemed right, couldn't find stuff even though it really wasn't setup much different, but it just wasn't "my old chair" lol

About monitors, I picked up a used 19 in monitor at a second hand store (Value Village) for about 7 bucks, best money I've spent, still using the monitor after almot a year and it works great.  

By now you do not do use his or her bf's computer anymore?  Why do you hate it nothing seemed right could not find stuff even though it really was not setup much different but it just was not his or her old chair lol About monitors he or she picked up a used 19 in monitor at a second hand store Value Village for about 7 bucks best money he or she have spent still using the monitor after almot a year and it works great so much?

By george I think you've got it Posy  

Me? What does "it" refer to?

Seven bucks?  That IS a bargin!

Pangor

  sure was  My bf got a 17 in monitor at another goodwill about a year before for 20.00 and we thought that was a great deal

Just goes to show you the old adage, one man's junk is another man's treasures. I love going to the goodwills and garage sales, I find all kinds of fun and useful things at a quarter of the cost. Best things I find are things you can't get at the stores any more, maybe someday I'll find something that will make me rich lol