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miunk
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 Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 5:18 pm Post subject: Do fonts look different on different cards/monitors? |
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On the SGI monitor with NVidia GeForce Ti4200 card the fonts look great.
On the Sony monitor with NVidia Vanta card the fonts look bad. (Fat in some parts, skinny in others, just plain bad).
I am using identical XF86Config files (except monitor section), nvidia drivers, and not using xfs.
I have tried all sorts of things to get the fonts on the sony looking nice, should I throw in the towel and chalk it up to the hardware? |
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Naan Yaar
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One thing that can affect this is the dpi setting detected for your monitor. You may find that forcing a display resolution may work better. You can look at the dpi for your monitor by doing:
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xdpyinfo | grep resolution
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With my previous monitor I had to force a 100x100 dpi setting manually since the automatically configured value was not very good in terms of font quality. Since I use startx, I did this using the command:
You can also set "DisplaySize" in your XF86Config file in order to force the dpi. man XF86Config for more details on this setting. |
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