Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.
Dmitri Furman wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts. Your help with this would be greatly appreciated. I spent a week now trying to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Dimension 8200 Desktop. Most of the time was spent setting up Xorg to work. I have Nvidia video card GeForce MX4400 with 32 MB or RAM. I had to rebuild kernel to make Nvidia driver work. I am able to run in 1024x768 mode but picture is really grainy. I specified depth at 24 and also tried 32. I have a 15 Flat Panel monitor. If anyone had any luck or has some pointers on what I have to do to resolve grainy colors problem please let me know what I need to do. Thank you. Is 1024x768 the native resolution of your flat panel? My experience with LCDs is that any deviation from the OEM's recommended resolution is likely to result in an ugly display. The more expensive the panel is, the better it is likely to look at alternate resolutions, but generally there can be only one with regard to best image quality. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) gregb at scls.lib.wi.us, (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.
Thank you Greg. Yes it is native resolution for the display. This is what I run Windows on. It is also using 60 Hz for refresh rate. From: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dmitri Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE. Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:02:01 -0600 Dmitri Furman wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts. Your help with this would be greatly appreciated. I spent a week now trying to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Dimension 8200 Desktop. Most of the time was spent setting up Xorg to work. I have Nvidia video card GeForce MX4400 with 32 MB or RAM. I had to rebuild kernel to make Nvidia driver work. I am able to run in 1024x768 mode but picture is really grainy. I specified depth at 24 and also tried 32. I have a 15 Flat Panel monitor. If anyone had any luck or has some pointers on what I have to do to resolve grainy colors problem please let me know what I need to do. Thank you. Is 1024x768 the native resolution of your flat panel? My experience with LCDs is that any deviation from the OEM's recommended resolution is likely to result in an ugly display. The more expensive the panel is, the better it is likely to look at alternate resolutions, but generally there can be only one with regard to best image quality. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) gregb at scls.lib.wi.us, (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:25:05 -0600, Dmitri Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts. Your help with this would be greatly appreciated. I spent a week now trying to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Dimension 8200 Desktop. Most of the time was spent setting up Xorg to work. I have Nvidia video card GeForce MX4400 with 32 MB or RAM. I had to rebuild kernel to make Nvidia driver work. I am able to run in 1024x768 mode but picture is really grainy. I specified depth at 24 and also tried 32. I have a 15 Flat Panel monitor. If anyone had any luck or has some pointers on what I have to do to resolve grainy colors problem please let me know what I need to do. I'm not sure what you mean when you say grainy, but I do know that with flat panel monitors you get the crispest display when you run X at the native resolution of the flat panel monitor. If you run it at some other (lower) resolution, the results can be somewhat blurry, IMHO, as the lower resolution is being mapped onto the higher native resolution (and sometimes at a different aspect ratio). So, a fix would be to determine the native resolution of your flat panel display and to use that (adjusting font sizes, etc. as needed). In my case, I was running a Sony 19 CRT monitor at 1152x864 and replaced the Sony with a flat panel display. The picture looked a bit fuzzy until I switched to using the native 1280x1024 resolution of the flat panel, at which point the picture quality improved dramatically. Cheers, Paul. -- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. --- Frank Vincent Zappa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.
Dmitri Furman wrote: Thank you Greg. Yes it is native resolution for the display. This is what I run Windows on. It is also using 60 Hz for refresh rate. From: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dmitri Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE. Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:02:01 -0600 Dmitri Furman wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts. Your help with this would be greatly appreciated. I spent a week now trying to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Dimension 8200 Desktop. Most of the time was spent setting up Xorg to work. I have Nvidia video card GeForce MX4400 with 32 MB or RAM. I had to rebuild kernel to make Nvidia driver work. I am able to run in 1024x768 mode but picture is really grainy. I specified depth at 24 and also tried 32. I have a 15 Flat Panel monitor. If anyone had any luck or has some pointers on what I have to do to resolve grainy colors problem please let me know what I need to do. Thank you. [snip] Well, sorry it's not the simplest thing. Being an old school CLI mode server monkey, I don't really have any great X Windows expertise to offer. FWIW, I set up a 5.3-STABLE box with all the latest gnome2 widgetry last week (thinking I might finally be able to stop my brother's use of dangerous MS-based web browsing habits if I gave him a non-Windows desktop). Although I recompiled a GENERIC kernel after cvsup, I didn't have any trouble getting the nvidia driver going (card is a 5200) or getting Xorg and gnome2 configured (thank you FreeBSD Gnome porters!). Since you mention recompiling your kernel to get the video card going, it might be helpful if you provided more detail to the list for those whose expertise might come to bear on it. I might also suggest simple trial and error; if you can put a regular tube monitor on this system, and/or if you can try different X Windows configuration settings with the panel, it might be telling if the problem gets better or worse. -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) gregb at scls.lib.wi.us, (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.
Greg Barniskis wrote: ... Well, sorry it's not the simplest thing. Being an old school CLI mode server monkey, I don't really have any great X Windows expertise to offer. No sooner had I sent this than I recalled the result of a previous experiment I performed trying to get KDE running on 5.2 quite a while ago. The default desktop background was set to a particular gray color, which when viewed on my monitor caused an *awful* moire pattern. This problem went away when I changed the desktop color to anything else. Is that your problem? -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) gregb at scls.lib.wi.us, (608) 266-6348 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Grainy X Windows and KDE.
I was able to resolve the issue. I did not have DefaultDepth setup in Monitor section. I added a line: DefaultDepth 24 In screen section and everything looks great now. Thank you. From: Dmitri Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Grainy X Windows and KDE. Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:25:05 -0600 Dear FreeBSD experts. Your help with this would be greatly appreciated. I spent a week now trying to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Dimension 8200 Desktop. Most of the time was spent setting up Xorg to work. I have Nvidia video card GeForce MX4400 with 32 MB or RAM. I had to rebuild kernel to make Nvidia driver work. I am able to run in 1024x768 mode but picture is really grainy. I specified depth at 24 and also tried 32. I have a 15 Flat Panel monitor. If anyone had any luck or has some pointers on what I have to do to resolve grainy colors problem please let me know what I need to do. Thank you. Dmitri Furman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grainy X Windows and KDE.
Dear FreeBSD experts. Your help with this would be greatly appreciated. I spent a week now trying to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Dimension 8200 Desktop. Most of the time was spent setting up Xorg to work. I have Nvidia video card GeForce MX4400 with 32 MB or RAM. I had to rebuild kernel to make Nvidia driver work. I am able to run in 1024x768 mode but picture is really grainy. I specified depth at 24 and also tried 32. I have a 15 Flat Panel monitor. If anyone had any luck or has some pointers on what I have to do to resolve grainy colors problem please let me know what I need to do. Thank you. Dmitri Furman ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.
On Wednesday, 16 February 2005 at 23:25:05 -0600, Dmitri Furman wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts. Your help with this would be greatly appreciated. I spent a week now trying to setup FreeBSD on my Dell Dimension 8200 Desktop. Most of the time was spent setting up Xorg to work. I have Nvidia video card GeForce MX4400 with 32 MB or RAM. I had to rebuild kernel to make Nvidia driver work. I am able to run in 1024x768 mode but picture is really grainy. I specified depth at 24 and also tried 32. I have a 15 Flat Panel monitor. If anyone had any luck or has some pointers on what I have to do to resolve grainy colors problem please let me know what I need to do. Thank you. How about posting a screen shot somewhere? It's not very clear what you mean here. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. pgpgwPaFhpP5g.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE.
Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: How about posting a screen shot somewhere? It's not very clear what you mean here. It sounds like 256-color mode and/or dithering of colors. That shouldn't be necessary at 16-bit color or beyond, though. -- Anthony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
