Re: [SLE] HP Pavillion ZV5000 (AMD64)

From: Matt T. (Matt_at_boons.net)
Date: 05/18/05

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Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 13:49:01 +0700

    On Wednesday 18 May 2005 12:02, Art Fore wrote:
    > Installed Suse 9.3 on this machine, but the screen looks terrible, so
    > much so that one can harly read the fonts. Changed the fonts to Aria
    > which helped some, also seem to be better with anti-aliasing which is
    > unusual for an LCD display. Resolution is 1680X1050, also a little ODD.
    > Had to remove the mode lines and display lines referencing 1024X768 to
    > force it to that though. This is poorest display for that resolution
    > that I have seen. Is this normal or is there anything that can be done
    > about it?
    >
    > Also, the Nvidia driver will not work with it. X just locks up with a
    > fuzzy display. It is using the "nv" driver.
    >
    > Art

     I have a HP Pavillion ZV5000, and the display is crystall clear and sharp,
    with SuSE 9.2 and 9.3.

    BUT you have to set the screen resolution to *exactly* the native resolution
    of your LCD (not Linux or SuSE specific probelm, but that is how these LCDs
    work.)

    Normally yast does it automatically for you, but with all the new resolutions
    and notebooks coming up, not all hardware infos are already in the monitor
    database used by yast and sax2.

    No need to play with modlines though. Don't forget, you are using SuSE, and
    the SuSE people had been so nice to make sax2 to do that dirt work for you.
    SuSE's sax2 does that all that modline stuff for you.

    Start sax2. Then select LCD (or Vesa) as monitor and select your resolution.
    If it is not there, then add it (under resolution and colors somewhere.) On
    my installation the resolution 1680X1050 is there in sax2, under LCD. BTW, I
    recently explained that in detail in the suse-amd64 list.

    The default fonts in KDE had been a little small here, but again that is easy
    to set in KDE.

    The autoinstall of the nvidia driver from SuSE's you does not always work, if
    the downloading of the driver from the nvidia website has a hickup. Do it
    yourself, that should work.

    HTH,
    Matt 

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