Hello; my name is Tomas and this is my problem:

I just installed Ubuntu Breezy on my work's laptop (the first laptop I've ever used, BTW), and I noticed everything looks unacceptably blurry with any resolution other than 1024x768.

I went to Wikipedia, and I found out (pardon my ignorance) that LCD monitors only work well at their native resolution, and they scale badly with any other.

So, I'd like to know if there's any setting to solve or minimize this effect in Ubuntu, because high resolutions really hurt my eyes (I'm used to 800x600!).

I already tried to configure the video card (ProSavage) settings, but couldn't find an entry for that in Ubuntu's menus. And I also read about some command-line tools (like Xconfigurator and XF86Setup), but couldn't find them even in Synaptic.

BTW, I saw (somewhere in a terminal window; can't remember where exactly) that the output is set to CRT instead of LCD... could this be a cause? If so, how do I change that?

Before someone suggests it, I already know I could just increase the font size and leave the resolution as it is, but many things don't look right after that... not to mention everything non-textual still looks tiny.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!


Tomas Pineda
tomas.pineda@gmail.com

PS: I'm sorry if this has been asked already, but I searched for an hour or so, and couldn't find anything.

u must manually edit xorg.conf

Edit it manually, and change what?

sorry for the late reply...

but u must know your vertical and horizontal range of freq of your LCD monitor

use those in your display section....

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So now the smack is done..
Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf to show..
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Then you can swap resolutions by using Ctrl Alt - or Ctrl Alt +

Some monitors are blurry on 32bits, not on 24 and blurry on 16bits.
Try each one as default color depth until it looks right.