This past weekend I repurposed my desktop into a media center-type PC, mainly for playing and streaming movies as well as the occasional NES/SNES/PSX/PS2 game through my favorite emulators. I bought a new 1080p TV to take the place of my Acer monitor and did a clean install of Kubuntu 14.04. The PC has my old but trusty EVGA GeForce GTX 750Ti card to handle the graphics output. When I installed the recommended Nvidia driver through Kubuntu's Driver Manager it made everything unusable. I went from this:
to this:
As you can see in the second pic, the icons are slightly smaller and the text is tiny enough so as to be completely unreadable. With my Acer screen I never had any issues at all with the Nvidia graphics driver, so I'm guessing there's some type of issue with how the card communicates with the TV. The Nouveau driver works mostly fine - high-bitrate 1080p video playback looks just as good as I would expect it to - but I get a lot of artifacting in text display (Terminal, etc.) to the point that it's distracting and makes things difficult to read.
Anyone have any thoughts on settings or alternatives I could look into? As always, thanks in advance.
**EDIT**
Having done some additional reading I found that some people have issues with 4K displays so I felt I should clarify that I am NOT using a 4K TV. I simply went from a 23" 1080p monitor to a 49" 1080p TV. One would THINK that going from one 1080p display to another would have little or no effect since they are both the same resolution. And, again, the problem does not present itself until I am using the Nvidia driver.
to this:
As you can see in the second pic, the icons are slightly smaller and the text is tiny enough so as to be completely unreadable. With my Acer screen I never had any issues at all with the Nvidia graphics driver, so I'm guessing there's some type of issue with how the card communicates with the TV. The Nouveau driver works mostly fine - high-bitrate 1080p video playback looks just as good as I would expect it to - but I get a lot of artifacting in text display (Terminal, etc.) to the point that it's distracting and makes things difficult to read.
Anyone have any thoughts on settings or alternatives I could look into? As always, thanks in advance.
**EDIT**
Having done some additional reading I found that some people have issues with 4K displays so I felt I should clarify that I am NOT using a 4K TV. I simply went from a 23" 1080p monitor to a 49" 1080p TV. One would THINK that going from one 1080p display to another would have little or no effect since they are both the same resolution. And, again, the problem does not present itself until I am using the Nvidia driver.
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