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hooking T60 to a Dell 24 inch LCD
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:49 am
by madcow
Has anyone done that? If so, is the video good? I tried mine but the video was not good. It wasn't very clear, and the image on the screen twitch every few second. My t60 doesn't have any problem with smaller monitor. I have ati x1400 video card.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 10:58 am
by SHoTTa35
shouldn't matter, how did you connect the LCD to your Thinkpad? via the dock or VGA or how?
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:01 pm
by seeplus
Get an advanced mini dock and use the DVI port. (that's what I do..)
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:40 pm
by skanky
i have a t60 connected to a 2407wfp via dvi on my advanced mini dock, not a problem at all.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:00 pm
by pianowizard
madcow, pressing the "auto adjust" button on the monitor may help sharpen things up a bit.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:16 pm
by madcow
I connected it via the VGA cable. I don't have a minidock. The auto adjust helps clear the picture, but the twitching is still there.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:45 pm
by pianowizard
madcow wrote:the twitching is still there.
Strange. When I connected my T60 to my 2407WFP via the VGA port, I did have twitching but only once every 5 to 10 minutes.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:51 pm
by seeplus
madcow,
Search around here for more info on the twitch; I believe it's a problem many people have had.
Strange that it would only happen with the 24" wide.. are the other monitors you've tried LCDs?
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:54 pm
by madcow
I think if you do not have the x1400 video card, you should be fine. I tried another laptop with an integrated video card and the video on the dell LCD is just fine.
I have used my think pad on 20 inch LCD with resolution of 1600x1200 and it works perfectly fine. The 24 inch dell has 1902x1200 resolution. I don't know if that's the problem.
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:03 pm
by SeanM
Do you have a t60 or a t60p?
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:17 pm
by madcow
SeanM wrote:Do you have a t60 or a t60p?
I have the t60 with ati x1400.
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:46 am
by madcow
OK, I think it is the driver.
When I the driver is removed, the twitching is gone. When I install it back, the twitching came back. On Ubuntu Feisty using ati driver, I had the twitching. But on Ubuntu Gibbon, the twitching is gone, but the image quality is a little blurry.
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:34 am
by snife
pianowizard wrote:madcow wrote:the twitching is still there.
Strange. When I connected my T60 to my 2407WFP via the VGA port, I did have twitching but only once every 5 to 10 minutes.
Install the latest BIOS and it will sort that jitter out.
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:35 am
by pianowizard
snife wrote:Install the latest BIOS and it will sort that jitter out.
I sold that T60 long ago LOL! I had the latest BIOS when I sold it.
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 6:08 pm
by SeanM
The bios fixes a flicker problem on the t60p only.
Madcow, if you put the machine to sleep with Fn+F4, then wake it back up, does the jitter go away?
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:33 am
by madcow
SeanM wrote:The bios fixes a flicker problem on the t60p only.
Madcow, if you put the machine to sleep with Fn+F4, then wake it back up, does the jitter go away?
No, it didn't go away.