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miller0521

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Registered: 2006-05-17

Posts: 38

Laptop Resolution

My laptops native resolution is 1400x1050, if I run lower than this everything is blurry, however at this resolution, there is screen wrap, the right side pops up over on part of the left, how can I fix this? This is the first distro I've had this problem with,

Also, is there anyway to run at 1024x768 without it being blurry? Or is that just the nature of LCD's?  And if I can't run at lower res, how do I make all my fonts bigger, is there a DPI setting in KDE?

FUBAR

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Registered: 2004-12-08

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Re: Laptop Resolution

I can only answer one of your questions: LCD's have only one optimal (native) resolution. Running any other resolution will give you a less optimal (i.e. ugly) result.

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chrismortimore

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: Laptop Resolution

For it not working at your native res, you'll need to post your xorg.conf.  And strip out any comments, they are just annoying.

For getting rid of the blurryness, it's just LCDs.  However, if you have an nvidia card, try the image sharpening option in nvidia-settings.  It can be quite good (but can also just make it worse).

For your DPI, there are a few ways you can do it.  The easiest is to probably set: Option "DPI" "[DPI]x[DPI]" in your xorg.conf (where [DPI]x[DPI] is something like "100x100", or "85x85", etc).  This should go in the Monitor section if I remember correctly (I'm not on my computer just now so I can't check).  Another way to do it is to start x with the "-dpi" flag, so if you wanted a DPI of 100x100, you could do "startx -- -dpi 100".  I'm going to assume you use KDM, so you'll need to modify KDM's configs to get it to use this.  I forget where the file is, but it's called "kdmrc", and the option is called something along the lines of xserverargs or xserverarguments, that kind of thing.

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szymon gruszczynski

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Registered: 2006-09-25

Posts: 15

Re: Laptop Resolution

hi.
you should go to page:

htt://xtiming.sourceforge.net

there is a tes (siple questions ;-)), where you have to give a information abaut your's laptop's display.
as a response, you will get a modeline; i.e. optimal settings for this display. you have to put this into your's xorg.conf file.

bye
szymon