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Linux + TFT experienc?

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fow99

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Anybody here running Linux on a DVI TFT? Care to share your experience?
Reason why I ask is that my new TFT (Viewsonice VX715) doesn't look too
good under Linux. It is very good under Windows. But under linux the font
rendering is really not that greate.
 
Looks great to me, with a Dell 2001FP under SuSE running on an Ati 9800 Pro through DVI.
I just had to be sure to use the monitor's native resolution. Otherwise text does get a little blurry.
 
You dont' go into X's configuration to change how the font works.

In fact you don't need to go into any X configuration files at any time for any reason anymore when dealing with fonts.

If you want to use new fonts, put them in a ~/.font directory for your user or for system wide use put them in /usr/share/fonts (behavior is controlled by /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file). Just copy the .ttf files to one of those directories and it immediately becomes aviable. (athlough you probably want to log out and back into X just to make sure)

Both KDE and Gnome have their own font settings. In gnome you have gnome-font-properties tool. You can either call it from a xterminal or find it in your application menu. In KDE font control is inside the Kcontrol panel.

Most of the time for LCD displays you want to enable "subpixel rendering" for "anti-aliased" text to get rid of the jaggies.

For fonts you can find and copy over the *.ttf files from Windows if you want, and there are several free fonts online you can get that are decent like dustismo. Also if your distro has a good package manager there are usually a few font packages that are aviable for download.
 
Originally posted by: drag

Most of the time for LCD displays you want to enable "subpixel rendering" for "anti-aliased" text to get rid of the jaggies.
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Yes I have that enabled. 🙁 Maybe I just need to get used to the result.


 
I've upgraded to 910T LCD recently,
on CRT using any antialiasing looked "ugly" blurry to me, on LCD thought non-antialiased fonts look "ugly" sharp.
 
on CRT using any antialiasing looked "ugly" blurry to me, on LCD thought non-antialiased fonts look "ugly" sharp.
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Maybe it's just me, but they looked ugly blurry with the anti-aliasing enabled on LCDs and CRTs.
 
I should note, that I actually haven't in mind antialiasing alone, but rather sub-pixel rendering on LCD,
this seems to be nice site explaining it (accidentally found in slashdot comment).
 
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