On Monday 11 December 2006 18:20, Bruce Marshall wrote: > On Monday 11 December 2006 16:44, Rob Wright wrote: > > On Monday 11 December 2006 15:16, Bruce Marshall wrote: > > > On Monday 11 December 2006 14:24, Rob Wright wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > > > I had my trusty KDS monitor die on me over the weekend, so I've > > > > hooked up a new Acer AL1916W widescreen flatpanel. I had some trouble > > > > initially but after loading SuSE 10.1 in failsafe, I was able to use > > > > Sax to configure the monitor. > > > > > > > > Now, my KDE looks like, well, it looks like crap. My fonts in > > > > particular are horrible, they're jagged and extremely hard to read. > > > > Is there something I should install to remedy the situation, or some > > > > other setings to adjust? So far the setup I have, via Yast, is as > > > > follows: > > > > > > What is supposed to be the 'native' resolution for the monitor?. What > > > you gave sounds kinda weird. If you don't run it at the resolution > > > that it is designed for, it's not going to look very pretty. > > > > The 1400x900 is the native resolution. I've changed it to 1400x1050, and > > that's helped a little but it's still not great. I did set anti-aliasing > > to 'slight' and that improved things as well, but it's still pretty poor. > > > > I'll keep pecking at it and see if I figure something out. > > Go into /etc/sysconfig/fonts-config and change the line below to be 18 > instead of 0. > > > BYTECODE_BW_MAX_PIXEL="18" > > > Might help. Read the documentation prior to that line.
Bruce, Thanks, that did help. Quite a bit really. And it gave me some new information to learn. Thanks again. Rob Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
