image quality?

[i2kdave]

I just started using ubuntu 7.10 and I was wondering why images don't look as good as they do in windows. They kind of have a cross hatched pattern to them or something. I've experienced the same thing in other distros. Is it a driver issue? I'm using the drivers that the os uses by default. Thanks for any help.

[i92guboj]

I just started using ubuntu 7.10 and I was wondering why images don't look as good as they do in windows. They kind of have a cross hatched pattern to them or something. I've experienced the same thing in other distros. Is it a driver issue? I'm using the drivers that the os uses by default. Thanks for any help.

Open a terminal, run this and post the output here:

xdpyinfo | grep 'screen #0' -A 10

If that doesn't give back anything, just run "xdpyinfo", paste the whole output into a site like pastebin.com, and then paste a link here.

The output of this might also be relevant:

glxinfo | head

[i2kdave]

screen #0:
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (304x228 millimeters)
resolution: 86x86 dots per inch
depths (7): 24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
root window id: 0x56
depth of root window: 24 planes
number of colormaps: minimum 1, maximum 1
default colormap: 0x20
default number of colormap cells: 256
preallocated pixels: black 0, white 16777215
options: backing-store NO, save-unders NO

[i92guboj]

And this?

 cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep 'Driver'

This will tell us the driver you are using.