Does anyone know of any programs capable of fine tuning my screen display settings? I'm using the NVIDIA drivers, and everything is slightly blurry - regardless of how much (or little) I set anti-aliasing to.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:53:04PM -0400, Ryan wrote:
Does anyone know of any programs capable of fine tuning my screen display settings? I'm using the NVIDIA drivers, and everything is slightly blurry - regardless of how much (or little) I set anti-aliasing to.
Just want to cover the basics first here. Do you have an LCD screen? Are you using the exact "natural" resolution of the screen?
Sorry, yes, LCD and yes 1024x768
Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:53:04PM -0400, Ryan wrote:
Does anyone know of any programs capable of fine tuning my screen display settings? I'm using the NVIDIA drivers, and everything is slightly blurry - regardless of how much (or little) I set anti-aliasing to.
Just want to cover the basics first here. Do you have an LCD screen? Are you using the exact "natural" resolution of the screen?
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:39:26AM -0400, Ryan wrote:
Sorry, yes, LCD and yes 1024x768
Digitally connected or analog? And are you positive about 1024x768? Almost all of the LCD screens I'v seen recently are 1280x1024. Don't want to imply that you're dumb or anything but this is by far the most common cause of this problem. :)
I tried 1280x1024 and X crashed and burned. Definitely 1024x768 :-/
Matthew Miller wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 12:39:26AM -0400, Ryan wrote:
Sorry, yes, LCD and yes 1024x768
Digitally connected or analog? And are you positive about 1024x768? Almost all of the LCD screens I'v seen recently are 1280x1024. Don't want to imply that you're dumb or anything but this is by far the most common cause of this problem. :)
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 08:57:44AM -0400, Ryan wrote:
I tried 1280x1024 and X crashed and burned. Definitely 1024x768 :-/
Well, crashing and burning definitely isn't good. But I'd double-check the LCD specs anyway. :)
Also, there was another question in there -- analog or digital (DVI) connection? :)
I did, 1024x768.
Sorry, analog
Matthew Miller wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 08:57:44AM -0400, Ryan wrote:
I tried 1280x1024 and X crashed and burned. Definitely 1024x768 :-/
Well, crashing and burning definitely isn't good. But I'd double-check the LCD specs anyway. :)
Also, there was another question in there -- analog or digital (DVI) connection? :)
On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 10:14:32AM -0400, Ryan wrote:
I did, 1024x768. Sorry, analog
Maybe the problem is just in that adjustment, then.
Am Fr, den 17.06.2005 schrieb Ryan um 4:53:
Does anyone know of any programs capable of fine tuning my screen display settings? I'm using the NVIDIA drivers, and everything is slightly blurry - regardless of how much (or little) I set anti-aliasing to.
Get the freetype src.rpm from a CentOS mirror and rpmbuild it with the change of the default setting
%define without_bytecode_interpreter 1
to be BCI enabled (1 => 0). Probably your fonts will look much smarter afterwards.
Alexander
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Fr, den 17.06.2005 schrieb Ryan um 4:53:
Does anyone know of any programs capable of fine tuning my screen display settings? I'm using the NVIDIA drivers, and everything is slightly blurry - regardless of how much (or little) I set anti-aliasing to.
Get the freetype src.rpm from a CentOS mirror and rpmbuild it with the change of the default setting
%define without_bytecode_interpreter 1
to be BCI enabled (1 => 0). Probably your fonts will look much smarter afterwards.
Only if you have the right fonts. I made the mistake of releasing an updated freetype package with BCI enabled and it caused terrible fonts for those people that do not have properly hinted TTF fonts (those are actually rare, except for a few fairly recent Microsoft fonts).
If you enable BCI you're disabling anti-aliasing for the fonts that don't come with proper hinting. And that's the problem. If there was a way to have anti-aliasing for fonts that lack proper hinting and still have BCI for the others, we would have the best of both worlds.
In the meantime I have replace the freetype package by one with BCI back disabled.
-- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]
I threw in the towel and went from CentOS 4 to Fedora 4. During install, my monitor (sony SDH-HS53) was detected, and I didn't have to pick "generic LCD 1024x768" and the problem was gone.
Really, the problem was minor- the fonts were slightly blurry - I'd say it made my LCD monitor about as fuzzy as a CRT.
Does anyone know how the monitor could be detected on CentOS?
Dag Wieers wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am Fr, den 17.06.2005 schrieb Ryan um 4:53:
Does anyone know of any programs capable of fine tuning my screen display settings? I'm using the NVIDIA drivers, and everything is slightly blurry - regardless of how much (or little) I set anti-aliasing to.
Get the freetype src.rpm from a CentOS mirror and rpmbuild it with the change of the default setting
%define without_bytecode_interpreter 1
to be BCI enabled (1 => 0). Probably your fonts will look much smarter afterwards.
Only if you have the right fonts. I made the mistake of releasing an updated freetype package with BCI enabled and it caused terrible fonts for those people that do not have properly hinted TTF fonts (those are actually rare, except for a few fairly recent Microsoft fonts).
If you enable BCI you're disabling anti-aliasing for the fonts that don't come with proper hinting. And that's the problem. If there was a way to have anti-aliasing for fonts that lack proper hinting and still have BCI for the others, we would have the best of both worlds.
In the meantime I have replace the freetype package by one with BCI back disabled.
-- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power] _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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