Laptops :: Poor video quality

I've noted a marked difference from the sharp, clear fonts and graphics when booted up in windows, and the fuzzy, unfocused fonts & graphics when running DSl. I'm using a Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop. I've done the hdparm tweeks, and made sure that the VGA was set to the conrrect decimal number in the menu.lst.

The windows video driver is sisgrv.dll version 6.14.10.3592. Do I need to manually install this driver, or is there some other tweek available? Thanks

Note: I have no idea why this posted twice

Mine was similar, i beleave it's the lack of fonts. I fixed mine by installing the dsl-artwiz fonts and abiword, for some reason that clears the fonts up so there perfect. Remember to activate the artwiz fonts in konsole type->
sudo xset +fp /opt/fonts/artwiz-aleczapka

then>right click> window manager>restart

You should see your pointer change, there's one little bug though, for some reason the hand icon that clicks on the icons stays the old one. You can fix this by simply going to> desktop>icontool then just click the ok, now the hand pointer should be the right one. good luck

Thanks. There does seem to be some improvement with those fonts installed, although I found more improvement by setting "VGA=Normal" instead of a decimal value in menu.lst. I'm still not getting the density of pixels like I do in windows. This resembles using a default driver that doesn't quite make it.

hmmm, vga=normal interesting. Did you run xsetup? Perhaps you don't have the right amount of colors, i use 1024x768 32 bit. I think for the installed system you use ctl+alt+backspace the type xsetup.

I just edited out a problem running "xsetup" On my system it has to be written as "xsetup.sh" to be recognized.

.xserverrc seems to indicate that 32 bit is loaded:

exec /usr/bin/X11/Xvesa -mouse "/dev/psaux" -screen 1024x768x32 -shadow -nolisten tcp -I &>/dev/null

BTW, how did you get the installed fonts to load in ABI Word? They're loaded on the system OK (I have the new pointer, etc.), but don't show up as available fonts in ABI Word. On my install, there's no Fonts folder in the ABI Word directory. Also, they don't appear to be the suggested font type noted in the manual. I tried both versions of ABI Word (GTK2 and older version) with the same results.

Thanks.

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