HP Pavillion ZV5000 (AMD64)
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? Also, the Nvidia driver will not work with it. X just locks up with a fuzzy display. It is using the "nv" driver. Art
2005/5/18, Art Fore <art.fore@comcast.net>:
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? http://www.criticalsoftwaresystems.com/technicalinfo/FedoraFiles/xorg.conf
http://www.purplefrog.com/~thoth/zv5000/
Also, the Nvidia driver will not work with it. X just locks up with a fuzzy display. It is using the "nv" driver.
install the nvidia propietary driver using Yast Online Update.
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
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?
Also, the Nvidia driver will not work with it. X just locks up with a fuzzy display. It is using the "nv" driver.
Art
Did you try downloading and installing the driver from Nvidia? I have a zd7260, and the nvidia driver is perfect compared to the nv driver. -- Mark A. Taff
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 12:02, 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?
Also, the Nvidia driver will not work with it. X just locks up with a fuzzy display. It is using the "nv" driver.
Art
I have a HP Pavillion ZV5000, and the display is crystall clear and sharp, with SuSE 9.2 and 9.3. BUT you have to set the screen resolution to *exactly* the native resolution of your LCD (not Linux or SuSE specific probelm, but that is how these LCDs work.) Normally yast does it automatically for you, but with all the new resolutions and notebooks coming up, not all hardware infos are already in the monitor database used by yast and sax2. No need to play with modlines though. Don't forget, you are using SuSE, and the SuSE people had been so nice to make sax2 to do that dirt work for you. SuSE's sax2 does that all that modline stuff for you. Start sax2. Then select LCD (or Vesa) as monitor and select your resolution. If it is not there, then add it (under resolution and colors somewhere.) On my installation the resolution 1680X1050 is there in sax2, under LCD. BTW, I recently explained that in detail in the suse-amd64 list. The default fonts in KDE had been a little small here, but again that is easy to set in KDE. The autoinstall of the nvidia driver from SuSE's you does not always work, if the downloading of the driver from the nvidia website has a hickup. Do it yourself, that should work. HTH, Matt
I downloaded and installed the latest nvidia 7174 driver for amd-64. Still same problem with nvidia driver, it locks up and is a blue-green splotchy background with a few horiz line running through it. Screen resolution is set to exactly LCD 1680x1050 which is what the screen is. What version of the driver are you using? At home on my desktop amd-64, the 7174 driver works find and is running Lcd 1600x1200 resolution. Art Matt T. wrote:
On Wednesday 18 May 2005 12:02, 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?
Also, the Nvidia driver will not work with it. X just locks up with a fuzzy display. It is using the "nv" driver.
Art
I have a HP Pavillion ZV5000, and the display is crystall clear and sharp, with SuSE 9.2 and 9.3.
BUT you have to set the screen resolution to *exactly* the native resolution of your LCD (not Linux or SuSE specific probelm, but that is how these LCDs work.)
Normally yast does it automatically for you, but with all the new resolutions and notebooks coming up, not all hardware infos are already in the monitor database used by yast and sax2.
No need to play with modlines though. Don't forget, you are using SuSE, and the SuSE people had been so nice to make sax2 to do that dirt work for you. SuSE's sax2 does that all that modline stuff for you.
Start sax2. Then select LCD (or Vesa) as monitor and select your resolution. If it is not there, then add it (under resolution and colors somewhere.) On my installation the resolution 1680X1050 is there in sax2, under LCD. BTW, I recently explained that in detail in the suse-amd64 list.
The default fonts in KDE had been a little small here, but again that is easy to set in KDE.
The autoinstall of the nvidia driver from SuSE's you does not always work, if the downloading of the driver from the nvidia website has a hickup. Do it yourself, that should work.
HTH, Matt
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