Decided to by a flat panel finally. ;-)
I thought “installing” it would be real plug and play—but what happened did remind me more of my first days with Linux, which was about 1996! I had to discover, that the X driver for my Matrox G550 has a problem supporting the 1280x1024 modes correctly. Even the most consistent setup using the same settings for the console framebuffer and for X didn't work as expected. There's a workaround: switch the resolution in X once… As this seems a common problem with the G550 and the messages in the Matrox forum weren't very encouraging, I decided to buy a new graphics card too. So I substituted my fine G550 with a nVidia GeForce FX5200. But even here the setup wasn't real plug and play. SaX2 (the X configuration tool of SuSE) didn't match the flat panel to the correct output! I did have to use a special option of the nVidia driver to force the flat panel as first (and right now only) screen. Here's much work to do…
