[SGVLUG] fyi - deal on 23" LCD

[Thomas Moore]

Hi Matti,

I agree, it looks like a pretty nice monitor so far. However for
the time being at least, I am still going to think of it as a
Win-monitor. Here is why. (There is a pdf manual on the CD) There
are 5 buttons on the bottom front of the monitor,power, menu,
brightness, volume and settings. Let's look at the setting button.
When it is pressed a window comes up allowing you to select VGA
or DVI and in the window it shows 3 more buttons, up, down and
exit. But there are no such buttons on the monitor itself. The
same is true for the other 3 buttons. The menu button allows you
to chose 5 topics including those already mentioned as well as
buttons to do so but again, no such buttons exist on the monitor.
I suspect that the required buttons are thrown up on the screen
by the SW on the CD. Or, more likely, allows one to use the cursor
to click the buttons. I tried to check this out by slipping an XP
hard drive into the docking station on my computer but it promptly
informed me it required Windows 7. And I suspect it wouldn't load
under WINE but I'm not going to bother with that.

Tom

On 06/17/2011 10:48 PM, matti wrote:
>
>
> Hi Thomas!
>
> Congratulations, should be a really nice monitor from
> what I can tell.
>
> I looked at the product webpage and manual and found nothing
> saying windows OS is required.
>
> http://www.hannspree.com/HSPV3Web/Global/Product/Monitors/LCDMonitors/HF235DPB/Specification.aspx?attrs=5,4&
>
> http://www.hannspree.com/HSPV3Images/Downloads/LCD-Monitors/HF-Series/UserManual/HF235D/HF235D_UM_EN.pdf
>
> I'm guessing the CD included with the monitor
> may have MS Windows specific sw on it.
>
> Don't worry about that software.
>
> Just an FYI, I HAVE NEVER installed the SW on the
> included CDs for any of the MS Windows systems I
> have deployed for work since LCD monitors became
> popular. ( I have just put those into the recycle
> bin. ) hmmm I wonder if anyone ever installs
> that sw? I have never seen it installed at
> any of the job sites I have been at.
>
> You should be able to do all the appropriate adjustments
> you may need on the front panel on the monitor using
> the buttons present.
> ( see pg 12+ )
>
> thanks!
> matti
>
> --- On Thu, 6/16/11, Thomas Moore<thomasmoore at speakeasy.net>  wrote:
>
>> From: Thomas Moore<thomasmoore at speakeasy.net>
>> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] fyi - deal on 23" LCD
>> To: "SGVLUG Discussion List."<sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
>> Date: Thursday, June 16, 2011, 9:21 PM
>> You piqued my interest, Matti, so I
>> bought one from Staples in
>> Huntington  Beach for $98. Nice unit. However, I have
>> heard of
>> win-modems, win-printers and such but this is the first
>> time I
>> have heard of a win-monitor, which this appears to be. It
>> comes with a a CD with windows executables on it and there
>> are
>> controls for the monitor which can only be reached through
>> Windows. (they appear to refer mainly to Vista or 7) I did
>> get my resolution set up with a little help from the
>> NVIDIA
>> X Server Settings panel in GNOME.
>>
>> Tom
>>