While working yesterday, I rebooted to this:
After isolating the problem (as you saw from the video), I felt compelled to do something about it. Read More
Abel is gone
While I had no intentions of naming my monitors, I ended up having to – since they both register as “VX922,” and it’s quite hard to tell them apart when fiddling around with the settings. Hence I dubbed them Cain and Abel respectively hehehe.
Anyways, I had Abel returned for replacement/repair as it had a dead pixel. The “serivice” unit given to me for the time being was a ViewSonic VA1912wb 19″ widescreen. I thought this would be the perfect time to test out the “align” feature in the display properties (for monitors that have different resolutions, you have the option to offset your native monitor alignment). This is the result of the re-alignment
Dual monitor advice, tips, and tricks
During my quest to have a color calibrated setup of dual displays, I’ve come across a bunch of information that will definitely be useful to any newbie plannning to do the same. Most information could be found in different forums if you search hard enough. But it would be useful to just have everything I’ve discovered written here.
Gone dual
I hacked up my computer table to make way for the dual 19″ LCDs. Now my workstation looks like this:
awwww yeeaaaaah!