Hello, I just installed Open SUSE 11.1 (32bit, Gnome desktop). I use LCDs native resolution 1680 x 1050 but text on screen is blurred. Switching from Best shapes to Subpixel smoothing in Appearance Preferences -> Fonts does nothing. Difference is only between Monochrome and Best shapes however both rendering methods produce blurred/unclear text. Any ideas? Thank you.
Try these settings
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Hi, thx for reply. It didn’t helped but it looks I finally found source of my problem. “Monitor Resolution Settings” and “SaX2” shows 1680x1050 but monitors OSD says 1400x1050 only. Card (ATI Radeon HD3850) and monitor (VIEWSONIC VA2016W-2) are detected correctly by SaX2. Do I need to install any additional drivers?
Did you actually install ATI drivers?
No I didn’t - it looked all is detected correctly by SaX :shame:
Open a terminal and do:
glxgears
what happens?
ATI driver install section:
ATI - openSUSE
glxgears
1899 frames in 5.0 seconds = 379.710 FPS
1832 frames in 5.0 seconds = 366.279 FPS
1956 frames in 5.0 seconds = 391.177 FPS
glxgears -info
GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS=4096/4096
GL_RENDERER = Software Rasterizer
GL_VERSION = 2.1 Mesa 7.2
GL_VENDOR = Mesa Project
…
I am going to install ATI driver - thx.
I installed ATI driver using one click install without errors. However now I am getting black screen after reboot even using failsafe (such failsafe is not safe). Switching to another terminal (Ctrl+Alt+Fx) is not working too. Can I boot directly to terminal somehow? Any ideas how to fix this? It looks I am cursed 
Boot to runlevel 3, like this:
Pause the boot by moving the down arrow, then back up to the default boot. But now press backspace, it should delete any text where you can see VGA=…etc
Remove all text and now type just the number:
3
and hit enter
at the login type your user name and then password
now type:
su
then the root password
Now type: yast
It will load a basic keyboard navigated version. But you need to check in the ATI repo that the kernel module matches your installed kernel.
Read this thread from start to finish!
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I booted to 3 (this is failsafe I was looking for rotfl! ) and ran again:
aticonfig --initial
SaX2 -r -m 0=fglrx
Now glxgears -info shows:
11774 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2352.812 FPS
13857 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2771.394 FPS
13653 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2730.584 FPS
GL_MAX_VIEWPORT_DIMS=8192/8192
GL_RENDERER = ATI Radeon HD 3850
GL_VERSION = 2.1.8494 Release
GL_VENDOR = ATI Technologies Inc.
And monitor runs its native resolution so text is perfectly sharp and clear. I have only one minor flaw: few pixels on the right side of screen are missing however its nothing compared to blurry text. I will experiment more.
Thank you!