On 1/20/06, jdow <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > On 1/20/06, Mike Chambers <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 17:16 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> > I have often felt that it is difficult to read text on my FC4 machine, > >> > but I thought that it may be a monitor issue (Proview 774). Today I > >> > temporarily connected the monitor to an XP Home machine and the text > >> > was perfectly clear. Is there anything that I can do to clean up the > >> > text? Here is part of a screenshot: > >> > http://dotancohen.com/text.png156 > >> > >> The above looked fine on my end. Not sure what exactly your looking at. > >> You might want to include what your seeing with yoru desktop or > >> something and try a screenshot of that. > >> > >> Is your monitor selected as the correct one and video? > >> > >> Mike Chambers > >> Madisonville, KY > >> > >> "It's only funny until someone gets hurt, then it's hilarious!" > > > > I think that I selected it during the install. In Control Center -> > > Periferia -> Display (translated) I can set the screen resolution and > > refresh rate ( 1024*768 , 85 mHz). But I see no mention of the model. > > That hurts to look at. There is no 85 milli Hertz vertical sweep rate. > Nor, for that matter, is there an 85 mega Hertz vertical or horizontal > sweep rate. That would be 85 Hz I suspect. > > > I provided the screen shot to see if my fonts are bad- I know that > > there are anti-aliased and aliased fonts. Of course, what you see when > > you look at the screen shot is what you would see if you connected > > your monitor to my machine- not what I see on my monitor. I just > > wanted to eliminte the possibility that I may have misconfigured the > > fonts or something. > > On the XP machine what anti-aliasing mode is in use? How does that compare > with the FC4 machine's settings? (For that matter how to the basic monitor > settings compare?) There is little or nothing that video drivers can do > to turn you video blurry aside from anti-aliasing settings. So I'd look to > hardware issues. Cheap video cables come to mind. Different video cards > will have different response as well. An old video card pushed to as high > a frequency and resolution as it can handle will often be blurry. Even > running video through some KVMs can lead to blurriness. > {^_^} > I just poked around a bit in the winbox's Control Panel and could not find anti-aliasing settings. Nor in KDE Contol Center. They both are on 1024*768 screen resolution at 85 Hz (not mHz!). The linbox has an AMD proccessor with the graphics card built into the Mother Board. The winbox is a P4 with a seperate AGP port and a 32 meg card (dont remember which one). The monitor _is_ connected via extension cable, both when i connected to windows and here on Fedora. I got rid of the KVM a few months ago. Now that I think about it, I _did_ notice a difference between the two when using the KVM, but as I spent as little time as possible in windows, I didn't persure the tought to much. Dotan Cohen http://technology-sleuth.com/technical_answer/what_is_hdtv.html
