From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pedro Ribeiro Subject: Re: Picture quality on laptop LCD with i915GM chipset. Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 21:11:31 +0100 Message-ID: References: <662869.41652.qm@web110506.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com (mail-ew0-f211.google.com [209.85.219.211]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 590C89E787 for ; Sun, 16 May 2010 13:11:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so1107160ewy.6 for ; Sun, 16 May 2010 13:11:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: SD Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org List-Id: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org On 16 May 2010 21:06, Pedro Ribeiro wrote: > On 16 May 2010 20:57, SD wrote: >> --- On Sun, 5/16/10, Florian Mickler wrote: >> >>> From: Florian Mickler >>> Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] Picture quality on laptop LCD with i915GM chip= set. >>> To: "SD" >>> Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org >>> Date: Sunday, May 16, 2010, 8:22 PM >>> On Fri, 14 May 2010 16:17:56 -0700 >>> (PDT) >>> SD >>> wrote: >>> >>> > Dear All. >>> >>> > Problem is - Picture on my laptop LCD is not suitable >>> for eyes. I can't explain exactly why, but it looks like it >>> is not smooth, it is rough, after some time (one hour or >>> two) it starts to hurt eyes. Some time I think it is not >>> stable and it is blinking. I do not use anti-aliasing, all >>> my fonts are clear without shadows and it is very noticeable >>> that something different, they are not look solid or stable, >>> like it on OpenSuse 11.1. And it is not just fonts, anything >>> on screen looks different. >>> > >>> > Thanks for comments. >>> > >>> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I'm sorry if this is maybe too basic. But are you aware of >>> screen >>> resolutions and the fact, that if the graphics-card drives >>> your >>> lcd-screen at a different-then-optimal resolution some >>> monitors do >>> interpolation of pixels to ''multiplex'' them to the >>> monitor-resolution. >>> >>> This can be easily detected by looking at the >>> /var/log/Xorg.0.log in >>> both the good and the bad case. (or by looking at the >>> output of >>> 'xrandr'). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Flo >>> >> >> I took digital pictures of my screen. So left side is Fedora 13, right -= OpenSuse11.1 >> Xrandr gives me the same output, except for something which is different= of xrandr version. >> >> So please take a look at the pictures of my screen (part of it). >> It is clearly - something is different, but: >> "Subpixel: =A0 horizontal rgb" =A0- =A0in both OS. >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Intel-gfx mailing list >> Intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx >> >> > > I can clearly see a difference, but I seriously doubt the fault lies > on the intel driver. Can you try compiling a .33 kernel on Opensuse > and see if you have the same problem? > > Regards, > Pedro > Actually you don't even need to do that, you can install packages with 2.6.34-rc7 from here: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory/i58= 6/ or http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory/x86= _64/ (if you have 64 bit) I believe the package you want is kernel-desktop-2.6.34-rc7.31.1... etc Disclaimer: I do not have opensuse so I'm just guessing