Re: [SLE] Re: Re: 9.0 and nVidia

31 Oct 2003


      John Pettigrew wrote:
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In a previous message, "Art Fore"  wrote:
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John Pettigrew wrote:
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If you drive an LCD at over its physical resolution, you lose clarity.
It is like comparing the same 8X10 photograph printed on a 300 dpi laser
printer verssus printed on a 1200 dpi laserprinter.
No it isn't - if the LCD only has (say) 1280x1024 physical resolution, driving
at a higher resolution will actually reduce the clarity and precision of the
display, not increase it. It's the disadvantage of LCDs compared with CRTs -
they don't work well at arbitrary resolutions.
John
I was comparing a 1024X768 resolution screen with a 1920X1600 screen (or 
it could be 1600X1200) and having the text and window displays sized so 
the are about the same between the two.  If you take the 1920X1600 
display and drive it with 1024Xww768, as when SuSE was first installed 
using frame bufferes before the nvidia drivers are installed, what you 
say is correct and the lcd actually is not used on a about an inch on 
both sides due to the aspect ratio.

Art