On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 16:59 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:55:11 -0700 > Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Upgraded to Fedora 8 - display looked weak, too bright, gamma way off, > > fonts thin, ugly. > > I had to play around with my monitor settings (twiddle the buttons on it) and > fiddle around with the font settings a bit after I installed F8 on this > computer. It now looks slightly different than it did under F7, but it looks > fine. ---- I have too many of these around here to resort to 'fiddling or twiddling' buttons on flat panel displays. I don't mind pushing through a new xorg.conf file to each system if that's what I have to do. ---- > > You might want to install freetype-freeworld from livna. ---- perhaps - I am quite certain though, that this washed out, straggly display isn't what Fedora has in mind...that's why I grabbed the snapshot. It was when I saw how good the snapshot looked on my desktop system, that I realized that it's a display issue regression going on here. Thanks Craig
