I see, did you check if you are presently using the 1360x768, because with that you should be having a larger gui and fonts.
When you are connected to that samsung 32" via HDMI it can force to accept 1680x1050 which is what I am using right now.
My advice to you to make it easier try taking out the hdmi and use the vga for now if you have an available vga chord in the house
Look at the difference. If fonts is okay we will deal with the HDMI later.
okay, so i tried the vga cable and it didn’t even work… which is weird because i used it for like a year until i got another hd cable for the pc… and yes it was 1360x768 before i tried the vga cable, and it is 1360x768 on Windows as well
It is and is not. The reason of trying the vga is, the 1360x768 is the highest resolution it can get
so your dead on to that resolution.
Also did you add the packman repositories in yast2 because if you able to add it you can install the nvidia-settings gui to make it easier for you to configure your resolution setting.
I am not sure when you use the 1-click install of nvidia driver if it is included in the installation.
You can try in the cli to command nvidia-settings
If it shows-up it is installed on your machine.
Try playing with that as normal user
clck the x server configuration
and try changing your resolution to a readable gui and refresh rate.
if it work, close it open a cli su to become root and do the configuration of resolution and refresh rate and save it.
logout and login and will use the HDMI to figure how it will work for you.
Are you really following what I had told you, if you’re not clear just ask and we will clarify it.
Also change the fonts to 120 dpi it might help
change also the sizes of the fonts to 14 for sure it will larger in configure desktop application appearance
When you configure the nvidia-settings you have to su to be root so your configuration will be save.
Okay i think i need to clarify something here; I could have adjusted the resolution without the nvida x server settings… I think maybe this whole time you are under the impression that I cannot read any text still. but after i logged in as runlevel 3, everything was a normal size again. So i’m not sure why we need to use nvidia to configure the display.
if it work, close it open a cli su to become root and do the configuration of resolution and refresh rate and save it.
logout and login and will use the HDMI to figure how it will work for you.
I have set the dpi to 120, and the font to size 14. Should I make the resolution smaller than 1360x768 to see if it displays correctly? I’m just not sure what to do after playing around with the different resolutions…
When you login from runlevel 3 my guess is you are being root and you force the dpi settings right?
I want you to configure the resolution using nvidia-settings as root so it will save the settings hoping
that when you login as a normal user it will become readable. Sorry with my english.
Don’t worry about your English, it’s very good on the assumption that it’s your second language.
Yes you’re right: I’m still logged in as root when I check the Konsole.
Do I click “Save to X Configuration File” ? Or will it save on its own when i click quit since I’m root?
If so, then I can reboot my pc now. Do you think I should try to add the repository for the nvidia driver or is it ok to try the “one click” option again?
Save it, Save to X Configuration File
and don’t login again as root it’s dangerous.
reboot and don’t use the runlevel 3, reboot the normal way and login as your user.
You can add the nvidia repository. But for now try to make it work first.
To be honest I am using the nvidia propreitary driver and haven’t use the one you are using so it might be different, mine is save to /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Yours can be different it might be prompting you to save as in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-monitor.conf
can you post what does it says.
