Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:25:35 -0500 From: Albert Vest <alvest@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg on LCD with DVI seems too sharp (nicer on PowerBook) Message-ID: <20060220182535.f4590f7b.alvest@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <86hd6t4x61.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org> References: <86hd6t4x61.fsf@Bacalao.shenton.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 15:01:26 -0500 Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> wrote: > I've got a Dell 2405 LCD at home and work. At work, it's driven by a > PowerBook with DVI and it's very nice. > > At home, I'm driving it with DVI from a Dell with a built-in Radeon > card running FreeBSD-6.1-PRERELEASE. > > PCI:*(1:0:0) ATI Technologies Inc RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)] > > There, it seems too sharp, too grainy, especially for text like > writing code in Emacs, reading docs with Mozilla, etc. > > Any suggestions on how to soften it a bit? I guess I don't understand > why the Mac display is comfortable but the FreeBSD Xorg display feels > so irritating. Perhaps I need to use a different set of fonts or > something? Chapter 5 of the FreeBSD Handbook has some suggestions for improving how fonts and apps look. -- Albert Vest, al vest at earth link dot net
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20060220182535.f4590f7b.alvest>