Hi all,

I am working on a Toshiba satellite 1800 laptop with windows XP ( not used
to )
The default screen resolution is 1024 X 768, which looks OK but I prefer a
resolution of 800 X 600.
Selecting this resolution looks like shit, I really don't know why.
The fonts are hardly readable, how can I select 800 X 600 in a normal
quality?

Thanks very much for solutions.

Edmund

Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
Because it's not the native resolution, and each 800x600 pixel covers
1.25 1024x768 pixels in each direction. That means that every three
800x600 pixels there has to be an interpolated "extra" 1024x768 pixel
inserted. The results are what you might expect from a zigzizigzag.

Get a 800x600 screen or else don't expand the 800x600 patch to full
screen but keep it as the middle bit with a fat black border.

Peter

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Thanks for the explanation, I wonder why Toshiba/windows shows this 800X600
as an selectable option since it is unreadable.
BTW as you might have quessed, making a smaller window with the same small
fonts and pictures is not exactly what I was looking for :-)
I friend of mine can switch from higher to lower resolutions just fine on
his laptop.
Are you sure there isn't any (software) solution, I have never seen this
weird behavior
on any CRT monitor.

Thanks anyway

Edmund <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:
That's more or less impossible without an exact integer ration between
the two modes (800x600 to 1600x1200 might be possible). And it depends
to some extent on the hardware - a particular graphics card might have
good hardware routines for doing the conversion and anther might have
poorer. In general, hardware doesn't do sphisticated stuff.

It's not a software problem as you phrased it - but sure, you can
simply "magnify" your screen image in software so that 800x600 takes
up the whole screen. That's an entirely different approach. You may be
able to get drivers for your o/s that specifically do that for your
graphics card, doing in software what the card is bad at in hardware.

CRT? But I said why it happens, and CRTs do not have pixels in the same
way so you would not expect it on a CRT! So I don't understand the
relevance of this comment. You can set a CRT to more or less any
"resolution" you like up to the mask limits - it's a question of the
modulation frequency you impose on the cathode ray beam and the sweep
rate, and so on. Everyone who has ever used digitally addressed lcds
over the last decade is familiar with the problem - there is a fixed
resolution, only and exactly a certain number of pixels, etc.

Peter

All LCD based displays (laptops, desktop monitors, TV sets) MUST be
operated at the native display resolution or the display will look
terrible. So your findings are exactly to be expected.

Switch to 1024x768, then if you don't like the size of things, Windows
has setting to make things (icons, text) larger WHILE STAYING AT
1024x768. This is the way you need to do things. For icons, there is a
"large icon" checkbox (Screen properties / settings / Appearance /
Effects). For everything else, Screen Properties / Settings / Advanced
/ General tab / DPI Settings, select "custom setting" and drag the ruler
up or down as you wish.


Edmund wrote:

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Thanks for helping