No More Involuntary Anti-Aliasing
My desktop at the office is a Dell OptiPlex GX620. It originally came with analog output only, so I invested in a Dell DVI Adapter (aka an ADD2 or SDVO card).
For a long time I used the machine with my 20" LCD panel @ 1600x1200. When that conked out after years of faithful service I got a 24" display which does 1920x1200. Unfortunately, the SDVO card in my OptiPlex (a SiI 1364)) maxes out at 1600x1200 or 165MHz. So for a while I've had to settle for a craptastic analog signal that was blurry enough to send me down history lane to the long, sleepless nights in front of a Sun 3/60.
Being allergic to blurry fonts (and thus anti-aliasing) I set out googling for an HDMI SDVO card. Today I stumbled upon the following thread. I added the following modeline and my desktop is once again crystal clear. Yay!
(mkp@mojo) ~> cvt -r 1920 1200 # 1920x1200 59.95 Hz (CVT 2.30MA-R) hsync: 74.04 kHz; pclk: 154.00 MHz Modeline "1920x1200R" 154.00 1920 1968 2000 2080 1200 1203 1209 1235 +hsync -vsync
PS. As long as we're using stone age ~100dpi displays I'm sticking with -b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1.
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