On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> wrote:
On 16/02/10 14:33, Mark Misulich wrote:
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 add my 2c-worth - and I did not read your opening post so maybe you already answered by following questions.comments:
1) which system are you using, 32-or 64-bit?
64bit for all installed systems except 32 bit win xp. I have opensuse 11.1, 11.2, win xp, elivecd installed presently. They all have the same problem using the nvidia driver, and render fonts well without it. I have had some other linux systems installed, but they also had the same problem.
2) have you tried using the nVidia provided driver and not the one from openSUSE?
Yup, using the nvidia driver from Opensuse-community one click install
3) some fonts are not suitable for computer use but will look OK when printed; which sets of fonts are you using, and have you installed the MS set of fonts or the DeJaVu set of fonts?
Don't know, how do I check which one I am using? I just use what comes with the operating system.
4) have you set anti-aliasing in Kickoff/General/Look and Appearance/Fonts/Use anti-aliasing?; and
Nope. I did install fonts using the one click "font with sub-pixel hinting" install from opensuse-community, but the other systems don't have that, of course.
5) which flat screen monitor are you using and using it with DVI or analogue connection?
I think it is an emachines screen, don't know the model number from memory. I will have to look it up and post it next week when I get back home from this trip. I think that it is an analog hookup.
(Lastly, always use the monitor's native resolution for max. performance.)
BC
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