Felix, sorry for the delay in responding. I have been up to my eyeballs in work and only now have a moment to breathe and try your suggestion. See comments below. Gil On Thu January 3 2008, Felix Miata scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
After a brief experiment with my i845G, I'm of the opinion that 'sax2 -r -m 0=i810' has significant nonzero probability of providing you little or no improvement. Anticipating that likelihood, here's an unusual approach - try using an xorg.conf I custom built that works on my i845G.
1-Download http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/tmp/xorg-i845G-intel-1400x1050x092x24.conf 2-Move it into your /etc/X11 directory 3-Assuming you did not yet do 'sax2 -r -m 0=i810', rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf-sax2gui.02. If you did do that already, substitute xorg.conf-sax2-r-m-0=i810.03 as the new (backup) filename. 4-Copy the downloaded file to xorg.conf 5-Log out 6-Log in
OK, I did that. Using your customized xorg.conf I find that things look very good indeed. I cannot be more specific -- the display just looks better everywhere. When I use the dpi test screens from your website I find that the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the test boxes differ by maybe 1 m.m., so they're almost perfectly square. And the bar that is supposed to be 1" (25.4 mm) is right there. Everything better than before. After putting your customized xorg.conf into place I then looked at SaX2. It told me that my monitor was: VESA 800X600@60 hz, resolution 800X600 SVGA, 16.7 million colors, diagonal dimension 15", aspect ration 4/3, display size 305X230 mm, sync freq. 31-38 horizontal and 50-60 vertical. So I then changed the settings to match the monitor and to see what would happen. Here is what I did. Monitor = Viewsonic 20G, resolution 1400X1050, 16.7 million colors, diagonal dimension 20" aspect ratio 4/3, display size 406X305 mm, sync freq. 30-82 horizontal and 50-90 vertical. Everything still looks great. So the problem I had originally with rectangles looking much more like squares has gone away with the installation of the driver and your customized xorg.conf. Thanks again. Gil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org