Bug#310455: debian-installer: ugly font on laptop
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 11:07, W. Borgert wrote:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 08:29:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Another possibility is that your laptop may be stretching/compressing
> > the display to fit its LCD. I just saw this on an old Presario
> > notebook; half the vertical bars in all the letters were 2 pixels
> > wide and half one, which made it look pretty messed up.
>
> Yes, I'm pretty much sure, that this is the problem. The
> font does look OK on most other hardware. I bought this
> notebook in 2003-12, so it's not really old. Maybe we
> can't do anything about it... Shall I re-assign the bug
> or is it more appropriate to tag it "wontfix"?
Wontfix would be best.
You could try experimenting with different video kernel parameters to see
if there is a resolution that produces better output.
If you find anything, we could document that in the manual.
Cheers,
FJP
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