1 Topic by Aphax

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Topic: Resolution issues

Greetings,

Recently I've downloaded the 0.3.1 live-cd and I ran into a problem with the resolution of the X(?) display. I picked 1280x1024 and 24bit depth from the menu but I seem to get a lower resolution and the screen is somewhat distorted (everything is somewhat 'thin' because it seems to have picked some kind of widescreen format) and it picked a refresh rate of 55Hz which my LCD screen doesn't really seem to like (the screen is sortoff 'shaky').

I have an nvidia card (6800GT) and never really had problems with the display resolution with previous gparted live-cds.

Does anyone know what's up or what I could do to help debug this?

2 Reply by Patrick Verner

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Re: Resolution issues

Try the Xvesa xserver from the extra boot options menu. I try to make a happy medium for everybody but sometimes it doesn't always work.

"I have an nvidia card (6800GT) and never really had problems with the display resolution with previous gparted live-cds."

I have had the same default refreash rate from day one with xorg. You may have been using an older version when we only had xvesa on there or xorg-6.9 is differnet somehow.

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Re: Resolution issues

Thanks for your response! I'll give the xvesa server a try

I would also like to add that I found that using the 800x600 resolution, the screen looks much better. However, the text is really, really small (I think it was small as well when I picked 1280x1024, but since the screen was distorted anyway I didn't realise it was the text itself that was so small). It almost seems as if a weird dpi value is used. I'll try to see if I can get a screenshot of it.

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Re: Resolution issues

Here's the screenshot of 800x600 and what the fonts look like: http://www.aphax.nl/images/gparted-800x600.jpg

However it doesn't matter because Xvesa works perfectly and the fonts look OK there, thanks for suggesting that smile

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Re: Resolution issues

The fonts depend on the kernel and the xorg drivers. I use Slackware for my main desktop and the fonts look horrible until I upgrade my kernel to 2.6. They look even better yet when I use the official nvidia drivers. I would really like to use the official drivers but the kernel module alone is 8mb and a bunch of other libraries too. I've busted my brains trying to get nice fonts on here but the iso size is going to explode if I do. When I run the livecd with my nvidia fx5200 the fonts look fine. It really depends on your card, I guess. The fonts seem to always look good with the xvesa server. It's really sad that it's not maintained anymore.

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Re: Resolution issues

Hi!
It is my first day with linux. During last 30 years, I struggled twice with linux and gave up. I have same display setting problem and do not know any way of display setting with windows not running. Since I have learnt how to make live CD, would someone suggest specific older version with no display setting problem. Also I want to know 3-4 short steps to make disk partition bootable.