On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 08:44:56 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have been reading quite a few postings about video performance > > from the PS3 that is not very impressive. Is their anyone that is > > using a monitor with the PS3 that is achieving 1080p results. Has > > anyone tried > > the BenQ 24" monitor? Any input would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks. > > My display for the PS3 is a Samsung 23" HDTV that does 720p and > 1080i. YDL always seems to use 720p, which isn't so bad I guess ... > but I think Enlightenment is using anti-aliasing on the screen > fonts, which definitely accounts for some blurriness on my system > (most notable in terminal windows, which is basically where I live, > so i'm really interested in figuring how to turn this off).
E17 uses font hinting. Go to the control panel and start the font config dialog, then select Advanced. Around about the middle you will see a section for controlling the font hinting. Try playing with that and see if it gets better. I get no blurriness on my monitor. I have just noticed that having a HDMI to DVI cable plugged in, even though you cant use it if your DVI monitor does not support HDCP, can help a bit. As I stated before, I use a component to VGA cable to my LCD monitor. This monitor cant do 480i, which is a problem because kboot defaults to 480i, and the GameOS factory default is 480i. The first is a problem, because I cant use kboot, I have to wait for YDL to boot. The second one is a problem if you turn it on by holding down the power button for five seconds. In either case, I can feed composite into the TV capture card on my other computer, but it looks awful, kboot is barely readable. On the other hand, with the HDMI to DVI cable plugged in, the PS3 uses it to negotiate with the monitor, the monitor says "I can't do 480i, but I can do 480p", so kboot starts up in 480p, and it is much more usable. The bad news is that GameOS still defaults to 480i. B-( I am still experimenting. The resolution takes up the first 5 bits of the video mode, the rest are various flags. There are at least three of these flags, fullscreen / overscan, RGB / YUV, dither on / off. By the looks of it there are a total of at least 12 bits, but it may be 16. Thats a lot of bit space to search, especially since I leave ten seconds between tests to give my monitor time to sync, and me time to inspect the results. It's tiring, since there is no way to automate testing the final result, you have to stare at the screen to see if something useful happens. There are also a few different cable combinations I can try, and over the next two weeks, I will have a variety of monitor / TV types to try out. I think I can ignore the RGB and dither bits, one just makes the colours all wrong, the other doesn't seem to make any difference. I can also just leave the fullscreen bit turned on, it doesn't change the sync rates, so I should get a result either way. I am writing a script to automate these tests as much as possible. I'll put it in here later today. So far I have found an undocumented mode - 19. It doesn't get me any better results though, just 720p.
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