Art, On Tuesday 17 May 2005 22:02, Art Fore wrote:
Installed Suse 9.3 on this machine, but the screen looks terrible, so much so that one can harly read the fonts. Changed the fonts to Aria which helped some, also seem to be better with anti-aliasing which is unusual for an LCD display. Resolution is 1680X1050, also a little ODD. Had to remove the mode lines and display lines referencing 1024X768 to force it to that though. This is poorest display for that resolution that I have seen. Is this normal or is there anything that can be done about it?
LCD displays have only one native resolution and that is the only truly optimal resolution. Why in the world would you want to use only 1024 of 1680 columns or 768 of 1050 rows? You can use YaST or sax2 to configure the monitor settings. There have been several postings in recent weeks about these issues. Search in your mailbox or in the on-line list archive for LCD.
Also, the Nvidia driver will not work with it. X just locks up with a fuzzy display. It is using the "nv" driver.
Define "fuzzy display." It's probably just that you're not driving the monitor within it's limits. Again, LCD displays generally have a much narrower range of scan frequencies to which they will sync.
Art
Randall Schulz