I purchased my first LCD monitor for myself tonight after seeing this Acer AL1916W on for $375 CAD at Kingston Computer Planet here in town. I was a little sceptical about it since it's pretty cheap for a widescreen lcd, but it turns out so far that it's a pretty sweet deal. I set it up and the image quaility is quite alot better than I expected and the 1440x900 resolution is very nice to work in. It's very chrisp, bright and has a much better image than the Viewsonic g220f CRT that it's replacing. Great deal if your looking for a widescreen lcd monitor.

I had a bit of trouble finding information about running 1440x900 resolution in linux and it required me to setup a modeline for this specific monitor. I took an existing modeline I found for some laptop and just modified it to work with the specifics for this monitor that are listed in the manual. Insert the following into the "Monitor" section of the XF86Config-4 (or xorg.conf depending)

HorizSync 30-82
VertRefresh 56-76
Modeline "1440x900" 106.5 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync +VSync


And set your resolution to 1440x900. Press the autoconfig button on the monitor after your running in the new resolution and everything should look pretty sweet.

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