I threw in the towel and went from CentOS 4 to Fedora 4. During install,
my monitor (sony SDH-HS53) was detected, and I didn't have to pick
"generic LCD 1024x768" and the problem was gone.
Really, the problem was minor- the fonts were slightly blurry - I'd say
it made my LCD monitor about as fuzzy as a CRT.
Does anyone know how the monitor could be detected on CentOS?
Dag Wieers wrote:
> 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.
>
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