Re: fonts on a lcd monitor

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On Friday 11 April 2008 05:26:03 pm Dean S. Messing wrote:
> LostSon wrote:
> :  I have recently gotten a 28 inch lcd monitor and fonts are not looking
> : as crisp as I would like especially white text on a black background in a
> : terminal for instance or with a transparent background. I am using a
> : fully updated Fedora 8 install with a nvidia 7600GS graphics card using
> : the livna nvidia drivers. The monitor I have is a HANNS-G hg281-D. I am
> : looking for suggestions on how to make these fonts look better in this
> : situation. I have the option
> :
> : Option "DPI" "96x96"
> :
> : set in my xorg.conf as suggested on the fedora forums and that has helped
> : as far as the other text on the screen for instance the menu's and text
> : in the gui's looks very good its seems to be just light text on dark
> : backgrounds, thanks in advance for tips or tricks you may have.
>
> Have you checked that you are running the panel at its native
> resolution (1920x1200, I think)? If not, then the card or the panel
> has to scale the video data and this will ruin otherwise sharp fonts.
>
> Dean

 Yes I am running at 1920x1200 but the effect is there anyway.

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LostSon

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