Oops, there's some keystroke that makes Gmail send, I wasn't done. Anyway I saw an improvement (I think) when I used CVT (consolidated Video Timing) to force 1366x768 instead of 1360x768. The physical pixels in an LCD aren't vague things like in a CRT monitor, if they don't exactly match the video resolution they don't line up and it looks funny or off. So now commented out in my config.txt I have:
# Trying for a 1366x768 mode for my Axess [works] #hdmi_cvt 1366 768 60 3 0 0 0 #hdmi_group=2 #hdmi_mode=87 On 4/9/17, Alan Corey <alan01...@gmail.com> wrote: > I meant that you should look at the depth in the xwininfo output. 24 > bit color has a depth of 24, that shojuld also be one of the > possibilities like: > rgba 8/16,8/8,8/0,8/24 > in the output from fbset > > Interesting that you should mention the cheap 1366x768 monitor, > thjat's what I was using until a week or so ago. Replaced it with a > nice Dell 22 inch SE2211920x1080 free shipped from Walmart at $92. > Anyway all the specs on the monitor/TV said it was 1366x768 while the > standard HDMI mode is 1360x768. > > On 4/9/17, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: >> On Sunday 09 April 2017 18:58:07 Gene Heskett wrote: >> >>> On Sunday 09 April 2017 12:09:20 Alan Corey wrote: >>> > Color depth is a deep subject (couldn't resist). Different windows >>> > (every X program technically has it's own window) can run at >>> > different depths even right next to each other. Programs request a >>> > depth from X or the window manager, not to mention a color map and >>> > graphics context. If you have xwininfo (command line program so >>> > it's not in menus) try it a little: >>> > >>> > pi2# xwininfo >>> > >>> > xwininfo: Please select the window about which you >>> > would like information by clicking the >>> > mouse in that window. >>> > >>> > xwininfo: Window id: 0x300008c "Gmail - question on armhf color >>> > depth - Mozilla Firefox" >>> > >>> > Absolute upper-left X: 35 >>> > Absolute upper-left Y: 65 >>> > Relative upper-left X: 1 >>> > Relative upper-left Y: 30 >>> > Width: 1189 >>> > Height: 870 >>> > Depth: 24 >>> > Visual: 0x21 >>> > Visual Class: TrueColor >>> > Border width: 0 >>> > Class: InputOutput >>> > Colormap: 0x20 (installed) >>> > Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity >>> > Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity >>> > Backing Store State: NotUseful >>> > Save Under State: no >>> > Map State: IsViewable >>> > Override Redirect State: no >>> > Corners: +35+65 -696+65 -696-145 +35-145 >>> > -geometry 1189x870+34+35 >>> > >>> > The Pi seems to make more use of a frame buffer than machines with >>> > separate video cards. Devoting more RAM to the GPU in raspi-config >>> > may have a little effect, I have 64 megs. A frame buffer is >>> > memory-mapped video you can actually write into. fbset may show you >>> > something: >>> >>> xwininfo reports on the windsow clicked in and since I'm logged into >>> the pi with an ssh -Y profile, it dutifully reports on the shell >>> window on this machine. >>> >>> > pi2# fbset >>> >>> The pi is running on a cheap AOC monitor that can only do 1366 by 780 >>> or some such relatively odd-ball size I had to set in the kernels >>> cmdline.txt. >>> >>> Interestingly this 1366x768 is NOT listed by fbset! So it looks like >>> I'll have to go to its console to run xwininfo, brb. >>> >>> Out at the pi, its 1366x768, 16 bit. The rest of it is a copy of what >>> you pasted in above. >>> >>> I'll take a look at fbset's man page. And I think video ram is 128 >>> megs. Maybe I'll learn something. :) >> >> That had been commented out. I put it back in addition to setting the >> fb's lines to what its doing. Time to get down on my prayer bones and >> reboot for effects. >>> >>> Thanks Alan. >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett >> >> >> Cheers, Gene Heskett >> -- >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> >> >> > > > -- > ------------- > No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - > AB1JX > Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach > -- ------------- No, I won't call it "climate change", do you have a "reality problem"? - AB1JX Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach
