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In article <gay.727728209@sfu.ca>, gay@selkirk.sfu.ca (Ian D. Gay) writes:
>reaper@wixer.cactus.org (Keath Milligan) writes:
>
>>The off-center thing is quite normal and there isn't much you can do about
>>it other than adjust your monitor every time you switch modes or get a
>>really expensive monitor that has processors to do it automatically (the
>>Mitsubishi Diamond Scan does this I think, but it runs about 2 grand <choke>).
>
>There must be different models, then, I recently bought one for $C400. 
>I like it, and yes, it does handle centering correctly, at least going 
>between 640x480 and 800x600. My card doesn't do 1024x768.


Some of the newer microprocessor controlled monitors have autocentering
and autosizing.

But an interesting bit that many people seem to overlook is that with
cards like the Diamond Speedstar line, or the ATI Ultra line, the setup
program that configures the appropriate scan rates for each monitor resolution
ALSO has the option to reposition the image manually (from the controller's
perspective that is).

In other words, you can set up the image timing for each mode in such a way
that the video image is always centered perfectly.  With the ATI Ultra line,
these settings are saved on EEPROM.  With Diamond you have to put the VMODE
TSR in your autoexec (but it's tiny, and doesn't take up much memory at all).

Alex