Re: bad text rendering on Acer LCD

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com>]

On 11/22/06, Marko Randjelovic <marel@ni.sbb.co.yu> wrote:
> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have an Acer 19" wide screen (AL1916W) which doesn't display text
> > properly, even on the terminal. I run GNOME on unstable, and this
> > problem shows in various resolutions I've tried, and the screen's own
> > resolution of 1440x900 is not available on GNOM's menu. Attached is
> > the output of of lshw.
> The problem is probably due to not using the native resolution 1440x900.
> 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' would probably allow you to include this
> resolution in the list of resolutions available to X, but I have never
> tried it. You can simply edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and where you see the
> line which begins with "Modes" and continues with list of resolutions,
> add your native resolution at the end.

I've tried that on the xorg.conf file, but it's not made available in
GNOME's screen resolutions preferences. I'll try KDE's equivalent
after Etch is released and see if there's any improvement.
By the way, be aware that I'm having text rendering problems on the
virtual terminals as well, and I just noticed that the distorted text
appears in certain columns only.