I registered this account just because of this really annoying situation or "bug" which costed me hours and hours of unsuccesful searching for a solution.
On my older PC I have Nvidia 7600 GT connected to some really old LG 17 inch CRT monitor @ 1024x768 res and I was fairly happy using ubuntu 12.04 on that setup for a while. Recently I decided to upgrade and bought a 18.5 samsung lcd which has native resolution of 1366x768. The problem started when I replaced the old crt and tried to set native res. At that time I still had 12.04 beta 2 installed. I immediately noticed that display was kinda wierd and not really crisp. Icons looked soft, words have blurring on some letters which was totally unacceptable. Both Ubuntu display settings panel and Nvidia Driver Settings panel were showing 1368x768 while the monitor OSD Menu information showed that the monitor operates at 1280x768. Since I have dual boot with windows XP SP3 I booted XP to check it out and there was all ok. 1366x768 both on OSD and windows display resolution. Since I didn't have any valuable files I installed Ubuntu 12.04 again, this time final build hoping that everything would be ok this time. During instalation everything is ok, fonts look great, icons aswell, everything is sharp like it should be, like it's native res, OSD shows 1366x768 during installation except that there was small right side border a couple of pixels wide which I thoght nothing of. When I booted first time and installed Nvidia drivers, old issue was there again. Font rendering looks bad again, icons look softer and OSD menu again says it's operating at 1280x768 which means that probably Xorg server is upscaling which results in why the fonts are not sharp. But why it's 1280x768 when Nvidia drivers offer either 1360 or 1368? When I removed Nvidia drivers I learned that nouveau open source drivers are responsible for display now. That's my understanding after hours of searching about this situation. There is however fact that with nouveau driver everything looks sharp just like it was in installer with the same small right side border. I tried to play with xrandr but I always see "xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default". I don't have a clue what can I do next. Few side effects I noticed... That few pixel wide border I mentioned is covering part of firefox vertical scrollbar... weird. When I boot into XP after Ubuntu every time I need to press "auto" button on OSD to correct the border. TL;DR I now have few options 1. To have Nvidia driver and acceleration but deal breaking worse rendering of fonts because of upscaling taking place. 2. To remove Nvidia driver, have no acceleration but have fonts in native resolution with few pixels wide right side border. 3. To scratch Ubuntu and boot into good old XP and browse the web with inferior looking fonts even with cleartype enabled. Yes I preffer how fonts look on Linux. Man, this 1366 stuff is really a resolution of a devil, I'm never again buying anything that has 1366x768. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/975175 Title: 1366x768 over VGA generic problems To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/975175/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
