Does anyone know of any programs capable of fine tuning my screen display settings? I'm using the NVIDIA drivers, and everything is slightly blurry - regardless of how much (or little) I set anti-aliasing to.
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:53:04PM -0400, Ryan wrote:> Does anyone know of any programs capable of fine tuning my screen > display settings? I'm using the NVIDIA drivers, and everything is > slightly blurry - regardless of how much (or little) I set anti-aliasing to.Just want to cover the basics first here. Do you have an LCD screen? Are you using the exact "natural" resolution of the screen? -- Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 78 degrees Fahrenheit.
Am Fr, den 17.06.2005 schrieb Ryan um 4:53:> Does anyone know of any programs capable of fine tuning my screen > display settings? I'm using the NVIDIA drivers, and everything is > slightly blurry - regardless of how much (or little) I set anti-aliasing to.Get the freetype src.rpm from a CentOS mirror and rpmbuild it with the change of the default setting %define without_bytecode_interpreter 1 to be BCI enabled (1 => 0). Probably your fonts will look much smarter afterwards. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC2smp Serendipity 17:34:09 up 24 days, 16:11, load average: 0.51, 0.29, 0.29 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050617/11824c4b/attachment-0003.sig>
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Alexander Dalloz wrote:> Am Fr, den 17.06.2005 schrieb Ryan um 4:53: > > > Does anyone know of any programs capable of fine tuning my screen > > display settings? I'm using the NVIDIA drivers, and everything is > > slightly blurry - regardless of how much (or little) I set anti-aliasing to. > > Get the freetype src.rpm from a CentOS mirror and rpmbuild it with the > change of the default setting > > %define without_bytecode_interpreter 1 > > to be BCI enabled (1 => 0). Probably your fonts will look much smarter > afterwards.Only if you have the right fonts. I made the mistake of releasing an updated freetype package with BCI enabled and it caused terrible fonts for those people that do not have properly hinted TTF fonts (those are actually rare, except for a few fairly recent Microsoft fonts). If you enable BCI you're disabling anti-aliasing for the fonts that don't come with proper hinting. And that's the problem. If there was a way to have anti-aliasing for fonts that lack proper hinting and still have BCI for the others, we would have the best of both worlds. In the meantime I have replace the freetype package by one with BCI back disabled. -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]