From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felix Miata Subject: Re: PCI configuration space of the VGA controller and laptop LCD picture quality. Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:29:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4D2F60B9.0@earthlink.net> References: <360714.55093.qm@web110503.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from fall-pradero.atl.sa.earthlink.net (fall-pradero.atl.sa.earthlink.net [207.69.195.104]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C582A9E929 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:16:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop-borzoi.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([207.69.195.70]) by fall-pradero.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1PdTng-0004WF-Cb for intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:29:40 -0500 Received: from user-142grkd.cable.mindspring.com ([72.40.110.141] helo=[192.168.0.51]) by pop-borzoi.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1PdTne-0007b8-00 for intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org; Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:29:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <360714.55093.qm@web110503.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org On 2011/01/13 11:58 (GMT-0800) SD composed: > I still can't figure out why Fedora (13,14,15) shows LCD picture much > worse then opensuse 11.1. What does "worse" mean? Most people who see "worse" are actually complaining about fonts, and in most cases even then they don't define what is "worse" about the fonts. Can you upload screenshots of both so people can see what "worse" means? That said, Fedora sets some system wide variables that affect X quality/behavior in /etc/X11/Xresources: Xft.dpi Xft.hintstyle Xft.hinting openSUSE doesn't do that. If you comment those away in Fedora, or match the Xft.dpi number to your LCD's actual DPI, you may find the difference is reduced or disappears, particularly if actual DPI varies more than nominally from the Xft.dpi setting. OTOH, they may produce little or no improvement if you've set your DTE to force DPI or tweaked its font smoothing settings. If you need to comment further, also specify which DTE you use, as that can matter as well in future responses. > As long as I still want to use Fedora on my laptop I would like to ask - > can picture quality be spoiled by different PCI configuration? I highly doubt it, other than if it's wrong there's no picture to assess the quality of. -- "How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/