[ft-devel] Subpixel rendering on monitors with v-shaped pixels

[Jamax]

Hi,

I've noticed something incredibly peculiar about the two Dell 1703fp monitors I 
am using at work:  the pixels are neither horizontal nor vertical!  They 
literally look like this: 

>>>
RGB

I've spent an incredible amount of time trying to get linux fonts to look 
decent on this computer and the end result is turning off smoothing/subpixel 
rendering and using fonts that happen to look okay at a particular size (tahoma 
10/12 and courier new 10).  Nobody believes me (in fact they get actively 
hostile at the suggestion) that the fonts look like crap and I suppose I 
understand since on other computers I've had decent looking fonts in Linux.  
There is always something wrong though on this system... either a colored halo 
around some characters and not others, or some pixels that are 'weak'.

I always assumed that I could just try various RGB/BGR/VRGB/VBGR settings until 
one worked and it would be obvious which one was best, and when I couldn't pick 
one as clearly better I just assumed something else must be configured wrongly. 
 But I finally broke out a magnifying glass and saw this bizarre pixel pattern 
and it dawned on me that it's probably the reason why.  I tried searching the 
list archives, but didn't find anything about this.  Is this a known issue?  Is 
there some setting in the config for this type of monitor?

Jamax