FAA How To Tell Whether Screen Hi Rez Active in R31?

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Re: FAA How To Tell Whether Screen Hi Rez Active in R31?

Post#16 by Bogomips » 26 Jul 2015, 23:24

Might be worth a try to get in line with Mint:

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xrandr --output LVDS1 --primary
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Re: How To Tell Whether Screen Hi Rez Active in R31?

Post#17 by jimwg » 27 Jul 2015, 11:54

francois wrote:I have found this type of effect reported on the net:
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-L ... -p/2126989
http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=762572
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Re: How To Tell Whether Screen Hi Rez Active in R31?

Post#18 by jimwg » 27 Jul 2015, 12:01

francois wrote: In Linux (in porteus?), some background images and those on image viewers show that rainbow halo effect sometimes found when high resolution images are being shown in low resolution on other machines.

@bogomips and Jim:
Is this only with some software only or all of them.
So far it's just hi-rez background images and some rendered on USM viewers. I think your hz remark is on the mark and I'll test that out shortly once I see how to do that on the R31 outside Porteus since there seems no such hz control on Porteus. If Mint can tap such a switch there must be a way!

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Re: FAA How To Tell Whether Screen Hi Rez Active in R31?

Post#19 by francois » 27 Jul 2015, 15:25

Get the frequency of your screen under windows:
https://www.microsoft.com/resources/doc ... x?mfr=true

I could not find it on the net with R31 display specs.

We will adjust it accordingly with gtf and xrandr commands under linux if this is the problem. Actually the xrandr output gives 60 Hz, we might try another frequeny, but we have to make sure your screen supports it, if we do not want to damage it. However, this was an issue for older display, and should not be one for more recent ones. For gtf, see:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 676#p22676
http://old.slax.org/forum.php?action=vi ... ostid37773
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Re: FAA How To Tell Whether Screen Hi Rez Active in R31?

Post#20 by francois » 28 Jul 2015, 01:06

Additionally, this might do some good you have to try to alter colors with the gamma command with xrandr. There is also a mention about brightness:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... -and-color
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Re: FAA How To Tell Whether Screen Hi Rez Active in R31?

Post#21 by francois » 28 Jul 2015, 02:31

Digging in the gamma specification for xrandr might give us some results. :D

Jim please try the following command line for your thinkpad:

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xrandr --output LVDS1 --gamma 1.05:1.15:1.136
Tell me if its any better.
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