Blurry monitor on FC4

[Kam Leo]

On 1/20/06, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/20/06, jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com154>
> >
> > > On 1/20/06, Mike Chambers <mike at miketc.com155> wrote:
> > >> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 17:16 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > >> > I have often felt that it is difficult to read text on my FC4 machine,
> > >> > but I thought that it may be a monitor issue (Proview 774). Today I
> > >> > temporarily connected the monitor to an XP Home machine and the text
> > >> > was perfectly clear. Is there anything that I can do to clean up the
> > >> > text? Here is part of a screenshot:
> > >> > http://dotancohen.com/text.png156
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>
> I just poked around a bit in the winbox's Control Panel and could not
> find anti-aliasing settings. Nor in KDE Contol Center. They both are
> on 1024*768 screen resolution at 85 Hz (not mHz!). The linbox has an
> AMD proccessor with the graphics card built into the Mother Board. The
> winbox is a P4 with a seperate AGP port and a 32 meg card (dont
> remember which one). The monitor _is_ connected via extension cable,

The extension cable may be the problem. What happens when you remove
the extension cable and connect the monitor directly to your Linux
box?

> both when i connected to windows and here on Fedora. I got rid of the
> KVM a few months ago. Now that I think about it, I _did_ notice a
> difference between the two when using the KVM, but as I spent as
> little time as possible in windows, I didn't persure the tought to
> much.
>
> Dotan Cohen