One thing I have noticed is that the "quality" of my display, by which I mean
the sharpness of text on the screen and the quality of the fonts, just
doesn't seem as good under X as it does under Windows booted on the same
system. (For reference, I am using KDE 2.0, mdk 7.2 with kernel upgraded to
2.4.1, and X 3.3.x - haven't had a chance yet to wrestle with installing
4.0.2, but that's on my list). I have the x font server running. Video card
is an nVidia GeForce II MX. But again, it's not a hardware issue per se,
because I am comparing X to windows on the same system.
Why is the quality so much worse under X than windows? Is this just a matter
of not having tweaked my x settings - I deliberately haven't because a) I AM
planning to get to X 4.0.2 REAL SOON NOW and b) the monitor I am using isn't
going to be permanent on this system as soon as I get the dough collected for
a new one, so maybe I just need some more tweaking. However, I find it hard
to believe that the basic defaults of X are so much inferior to the defaults
under Windows, which I understand tends to run monitors at the lowest end of
their tolerances anyway.
Another issue: X comes with a limited set of not-very-nice appearing fonts,
while I seem to have hundreds of nice looking fonts under windows with Office
2K intalled. I assume there is somewhere that I can get a nicer selection of
fonts for X...perhaps the 100dpi font RPM for X 4.0.2 is where I should be
looking.
Any ideas / suggestions? If it would help, I could upload my x config file
too...
Neal
