KnoppMyth on a 320G drive

Tim Writer tim-s/rLXaiAEBtBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Wed Dec 6 21:28:03 UTC 2006


lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org (Lennart Sorensen) writes:

> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:20:13PM -0500, Merv Curley wrote:
> > I would like to thank everyone for their comments,  all appreciated and 
> > helpful.  I do understand a bit better what is happening now, and will try 
> > the various hints.
> > 
> > As a note,  this box has a 64 bit AMD running in 32 bit mode @ 3500 Mhz;  the 
> > video card is an NV6100 and my LCD in a week old, 8 ms but only 1280 x 1024 
> > resolution.  Desktop, screensavers, text are all very crisp.
> 
> An athlon 64 3500+ is 2200MHz.
> 
> Running anything other than native resolution on an LCD will generally
> look very bad, or at least rather blurry.  Personally I hate 1280x1024
> since it screws with the pixel shape on most displays.  I wish 19" and
> 17" were either 1280x960 or some other sensible resolution that left the
> pixels square. </rant>

Have you tried tuning your xorg.conf to use 1280x960? It's non-standard but
you can do anything with custom mode settings (including frying your
monitor).

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