Re: [opensuse] Screen Resolution

On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 17:01 +0100, C wrote:

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:30, Mark Misulich wrote:

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Hi, here is a link to a snapshot I took of the way fonts are displayed on my screen. I am a little disappointed with it because as I look at the screenshot it looks better than what I see on my desktop. The fonts on my desktop are more chopped up, but I hope it will give you an idea of what I am trying to fix. If it doesn't work to convey that idea, let me know and I will try something else.

This link shows the desktop at native resolution (1366X768, VGA)

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/653/snapshot1lw.png

Here is a screenshot showing the same view at a different resolution (1280x720). Hopefully you can pick out the improvement in font rendering quality.

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/6872/snapshot2zw.png

Hmmmm... I cannot see any difference at all between the two. I opened the screencaps in two different tabs in Firefox, and then quickly switched back and forth between them... they look identical to my eyes...

I also opened in Gwenview and in Gimp and.. still the same.

The problem with screen caps is they show the screen as it was sent to your video card/monitor, not necessarily what was actually displayed on the monitor.

Is your monitor a TFT? Are you running it in analog mode (traditional VGA) or using DVI? What vid card? Open source or proprietary drivers?

I'm just guessing here, but I'd say that openSUSE's font rendering is not at fault, but that it's more likely something to do with your monitor, or the drivers, or.... something like that.

C.

Hi, I had begun this thread about a week ago, but had a little break for a business trip. To bring you up to speed, I have a problem with fonts being rendered poorly when I use the Nvidia driver. It happens on all the operating systems on this computer, but only when the Nvidia driver is used. When the Nvidia driver is used I can get the fonts to display better when I use a non-native screen resolution. The native resolution is 1366x768. The display is an emachines E161HQ TFT LCD. I am trying to either find out what to do to display the fonts correctly, or how to set the monitor so that it boots to a screen resolution of my choice. I have used the Nvidia configuration interface to set the screen resolution to what works, but when I reboot the computer it goes back to the native setting. Any ideas? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org