From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 16:02:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9201B16A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:02:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE2343D1F for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:02:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j1HG2dtB087428; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:02:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <4214BFF9.5060409@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:02:01 -0600 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitri Furman References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Grainy X Windows and KDE. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:02:42 -0000 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) , (608) 266-6348