Computer text on a video monitor has never been very acceptable. The native resolution reflects the physical makeup of the screen, and any resolution setting other than native is both slow and "derived". That is to say, the computer pixels have to be mapped onto the LCD cells, and loose the true relationship of the original pixel. Seeing a video picture is not a good test, as your mind blends what it sees and says "cool". Text, on the other hand, demands true fidelity, and the interpretations stand out like a sore thumb. If you purchased this for HDTV, then keep it. Otherwise, I'd take it back, or run it at the native resolution as a wide-screen display. Nothing wrong with a large desktop... Tom On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 18:56 +0100, stephan beal wrote:
On Sunday 29 October 2006 16:06, Basil Chupin wrote:
Go here-
http://us.lge.com/download/product/file/1000000469/L3200TF_specsheet. pdf
The resolution is 1366x768 and the dp is 0.51mm.
That's the "native" resolution (as written on the box), whatever that really means. The device does 1600x1200, though, which is why i bought it. In the store they had conflicting info - on one sheet it said 1600x1200 and on other it said 1366x768, so we actually hooked up the screen to an on-display computer to make sure it would do 1600x1200.
After telling sax that my screen is 32", instead of the 42" it had configurd, i get a more reasonable view:
xdpyinfo | grep resolution resolution: 58x70 dots per inch xdpyinfo | grep dimensions dimensions: 1600x1200 pixels (701x435 millimeters)
It isn't super-sharp, but it's more usable. When it "extended VGA" text mode, though, it's almost unreadable. (e.g., when i use ctrl-alt-f2 to drop to a text console.)