On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
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On Thursday, 2010-02-11 at 09:09 -0500, Mark Misulich wrote:
I am running opensuse 11.2 and kde 4.4 on this computer. I have a problem with the screen displaying fonts poorly. The screen is a 1366x768 resolution, and I have a recent Nvidia video card in the box.
If you have a flat display, use the display native resolution. Always. Anything else is an imitation, will render badly.
The fonts display okay at that resolution until I install the Nvidia driver for the video card. They display okay with whatever the video driver is that is used by Opensuse 11.2 in a new installation. I have tried a couple of different video cards and get the same results.
Is that a font rendering problem, or any type of line drawing displays bad?
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Hi, the problem is most noticeable with fonts. They appear all chopped up and difficult to read. I will send a screenshot next Tuesday evening. I had to start a business trip two days early because of a snowstorm, so I had to drop everything at home and scramble to catch a flight out before the snow hit. Otherwise I would have waited till my return to continue this thread. I have both 11.2 and 11.1 loaded on the computer and installed the current nvidia driver on both via opensuse-community one click install. The 11.2 picked up the screen resolution as "auto" and is 1360x768, if I remember right. That is the native resolution of the screen. 11.1 picked up the screen resolution as 1024x768, and it keeps coming up that way when it reboots. The fonts are choppy in 11.2 and pretty readable in 11.1. I have tried this with two different model video cards, both with the same nvidia driver, and get the same results. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org