Software anti-aliasing may not work in all cases. Even in Windows I've seen several flat panel monitors whose displays look terribly pixelated and "stair-steppy" when set to display any resolution less than their designated max. When a video signal syncs up 1:1 with the horizontal and vertical pixels in the display, voila! If your Apple's video card can support 2560x1600 (even if only 16-bit), I'd give it a try. (That's a 16:10 aspect ratio rather than 16:9, if it matters.) --Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL Not sure about the actual resolution, but as far as fuzzy fonts go, you > should change anti-aliasing setting. > In Control Center go to Appearance & Themes -> Fonts. There's a > Configure button next to "Use anti-aliasing for fonts". Play around with > those settings and see which one works better for you. My favorite is > Use sub-pixel hinting RGB and Hinting style set at Full. > Note that only newly-launched applications will use these settings. > Also, I'm using FC6 with KDE, so apologies if you don't have the applet > in the same place. > > > > As far as resolution, have you tried adding your resolution to Display > subsection like so: > > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Depth 24 > Modes "2560x1600" > EndSubSection > > > > > > > Michael J. McGillick wrote: >> Hi: >> >> I'm running Fedora 7 on a Mac Pro with an ATI Radeon X1900 XT and an >> Apple >> 30" HD Cinema LCD monitor. I've been doing a lot of reading on how to >> properly set up my xorg.conf file, however, I've not been able to get >> very >> far. I'd appreciate any help, or pointers in the right direction. >> >> The problems I'm having are: >> >> - The highest resolution that the I can set through System > >> Administration >>> Display is 1920 x 1440 (This monitor supports 2560x1600). >> >> - In all resolutions, the font is incredibly fuzzy. I have to leave the >> monitor set at 1280x1024, as any higher resolution and the text is >> unreadable. >> >> - The background graphics and images are also fuzzy. >> >> >> To date, here is what I've done: >> >> - Installed Fedora - In the Gnome desktop, if I go to System > >> Administration > Display, on the Hardware tab, I'm told that the monitor >> type is Cinema HD (autoconfigured) and the Video Card is ATI >> Technologies >> Inc R580 [Radeon X1900 XT] (Primary). This leads me to believe that the >> Fedora installer recognized my hardware. >> >> - Examined xorg.conf - If I look in xorg.conf, I see a listing for vesa >> instead of the Radeon driver. I did some reading and apparently there is >> a >> problem with the current 8.37.6 version of the ATI driver in that it >> segfaults the X server. (Please correct me if my understanding is wrong) >> >> - Followed several different threads that talk about similar problems >> to >> mine, but never a solution posted. In many cases, the user had the same >> graphics card as mine, but not the same monitor. >> >> - Researched how to configure an LCD monitor in xorg.conf only to learn >> that most LCD monitors do not have a refresh rate in the traditional >> sense, >> and so you can leave the entire monitor section out of xorg.conf. >> Apparently it gets detected automatically. >> >> I'm a new user and would really like to be able to get up and running. >> As with any new user, I'm frustrated that I haven't been able to figure >> it >> out on my own. At this point, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, and >> could >> really use some help. >> >> The xorg.conf that got created was: >> >> # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display >> >> Section "ServerLayout" >> Identifier "single head configuration" >> Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 >> InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" >> EndSection >> >> Section "InputDevice" >> Identifier "Keyboard0" >> Driver "kbd" >> Option "XkbModel" "pc105" >> Option "XkbLayout" "us" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Videocard0" >> Driver "vesa" >> EndSection >> >> Section "Screen" >> Identifier "Screen0" >> Device "Videocard0" >> DefaultDepth 24 >> SubSection "Display" >> Viewport 0 0 >> Depth 24 >> EndSubSection >> EndSection >> >> Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. >> >> - Michael >> >> > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
