Rocky,
right you are. i don't think it is ilegal in us to run display at
60Hz, but it sure is a bad idea in offices without natural light. the
frequency coincides with the current and the flashing in the peripheral
vision is unbelievable, especially if you wear thick glasses.
what do you need to do to run the fontserver with your favorite
trutype fonts? julius
On 31 Mar 2002, Rocky Hetherington wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-03-30 at 22:44, Julius Szelagiewicz wrote:
> > Ken,
> > the how-to is very nice, but it misses a few points.
> > Point number one and most important: the fonts on thinknics are
> > rather blurry unless run in the native Xvesa mode.
>
> The major problem with using Xvesa is that it will not go to a higher
> refresh than 60Hz. This makes it illegal for use in business or
> education settings (at least in the UK) as, last time i checked, the
> minimum under health and safety laws is 72Hz.
>
> Since my last post I've been playing, and have managed to get fonts
> looking OK on a Thinknic using Xfree86 4.1.0.
>
> Editing rc.local and adding "-dpi 100" to the XOPTS for
> XBINARY="XFree86" improves things a little, but the default fonts still
> aren't that good.
>
> Running a font server containing all my truetype fonts gives me great
> fonts. They're still a little blurry (is it a sis driver problem?) but
> on the whole it's a much nicer experience. And it runs at a less
> eye-straining 85Hz.
> --
> Rocky Hetherington
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>
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