Centralization of graphical awesomeness

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at rasterman.com
Mon Oct 26 15:02:37 CET 2009


On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:53:50 +0100 Marcel <tanuva at googlemail.com> said:

> Am Dienstag, den 27.10.2009, 00:11 +1100 schrieb Carsten Haitzler: 
> > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:23:51 +0000 Vasco Névoa <vasco.nevoa at sapo.pt> said:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Downgrading to QVGA is something that should have been done a long time
> > > ago. There's no point in trying to force a badly designed system.
> > > 
> > > How do we do it? Which files must be changed?
> > 
> > last i checked... 1. xmd-line option to xglamo (kdrive) server to select
> > it, 2. xrandr to runtime select it. note that toushcreen driver didn't
> > account for res change so ts coords were still assuming 480x640 - this is a
> > small fix needed for it to be totally usable. not sure if this was ever
> > fixed, but if it hasn't been - this is a good indicator of how no one has
> > bothered with qvga. thus the complaints. try it. you'll find it
> > significantly faster. see videos below - 206mhz ipaq3660.. smooth.
> 
> I tried to got to qvga for graphics performance testing about a week
> ago. This is needed (tested on SHR's 2.6.29-rc3):
> echo "qvga-normal" > /sys/bus/spi/devices/spi2.0/state
> xrandr -s 240x320
> 
> To return to vga:
> echo "normal" > /sys/bus/spi/devices/spi2.0/state
> xrandr -s 480x640
> 
> Problems:
> - SHR's pin entry dialogue and shr-today have a too large font so
> they're hard to read, but still (kinda) usable, didn't try other apps
> http://scap.linuxtogo.org/files/3a88e6beb3253362d14384ec3f3a3dfe.png
> (yes, that's the whole screen)
> - graphics in general are far too light, most colors become whiteish
> - colored stripes horizontally over the whole display, but are invisible
> on screenshots (naturally) - the same as above, but photographed:
> http://d-a300.selfip.net/files/shr-today-qvga.jpg
> 
> If our software would run well in that resolution and if the display
> would make it (better than now), I would clearly prefer qvga for
> performance. I was about to write a little game, but that's impossible
> with that horrible vga rendering performance.

did dpi get adjusted too? still 285dpi? check e's scaling settings. it can
adapt to dpi if it is set up to do so. it also has a manual scale switch to set
it to whatever u want. whatever e sets, elementary inherits too, unless the
theme has been done in such a way not to allow scaling (the default does).
custom written edje files with font may also not scale for the same reason a
different elm theme may not. if things are done right it should just magically
"work" on qvga and look wonderful.

as for display artifacts - maybe its a refresh issue or a screen timing issue.
not sure. i remember those screen artifacts long ago (like before freerunner
was even released). looks like nothing has been fixed since :)

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