[ale] Xorg rant

[Jim Kinney]

sounds like a need to tweak the refresh setting in xorg.

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Unknown"
    ModelName    "Unknown"
    HorizSync    30.0 - 110.0
    VertRefresh  50.0 - 150.0
    Option        "DPMS"
EndSection

This is a 19" LCD from viewsonic (va912b). I have seen that the screens
farther from 1024x768 format are much harder to get tuned well for Xorg. I
think part of the problem is the newer monitors no longer emit good data on
query about formatting thus all the stupid "driver disks" for windows.

It would be nice if there was a clearly defined manner to input the screen
dimensions in pixels as a starting point for the new, wide sizes (that are
not standardized ANYWHERE).


On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Christoper Fowler <
cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:

> I think this email may be a copy of one I sent last year.
>
> I decided today to install gOS on an Aopen Xcube and try it out.  It
> has a Nvidia chip.
>
> When it finished I had a nice 20" widescreen LCD at 800x600!.  I
> installed the drivers from the GUI and now it was down to 640x480!
> To fix this I copied xorg.conf from my shuttleX to this machine and
> finally I get 1680x1050.
>
> Last year when I did this install on my shuttleX I had to install
> Ubuntu 7.10 first so that xorg.conf was correct.  I then had to
> to do the 8.04 update.  If I installed 8.04 first then xorg.conf was
> broken.  Apparently there is a movement in X to have the driver
> detect resolution at start instead of details in xorg.conf.  IMO, this
> is truly broken.  Especially with older hardware.
>
> It takes someone like me to fix this on my system.  What about people
> installing gOS that have not had any exposure at all
> with Linux.  Good Luck.  Is this truly progress and I'm just doing
> things wrong?
>
> Another question.  at 1680x1050 my fonts are a bit fuzzy.   The
> Xcube as a chip with 32M mem dedicated.  The shuttleX has an
> AGP card with 128m real memory.  On shuttleX the fonts are crisp
> and everything is bright.  on gOS it is dull and fuzzy.  Possibly refresh
> rate is wrong or maybe I need to make a change in the preferences?
>
> Chris
>
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