Why does X.3 look so bad on iBook SE?

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Why does X.3 look so bad on iBook SE?

I'm doing an installation of X.3 on a graphite clamshell iBook SE/466. One thing that's bugging me is that the screen looks terrible, at least compared to when it was booting into OS 9. In the appearance control panel I set Font Smoothing Style to "Medium- best for flat panel LCD", but text is still blocky and uneven. Also, images don't look right either- hard to describe but sort of washed out and unclear (same at thousands or millions of colors). What gives? Any settings I need to change, or is this the best the aging hardware can manage?

Something else that I noticed in either OS was that the backlight is terribly uneven. Is that normal for this models?

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fixed itself

I don't know why, but after doing the update to .3.9, it seemed to have fixed itself. Fonts and images look normal. Things that make you go Hmmmmm.

Backlight still looks like crap of course.

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Also, check the font size tha

Also, check the font size that smoothing is set to turn off at for a minimum. If it's all the smaller fonts that looked bad, that might have been it.

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What color profile is it set

What color profile is it set on? When I first installed OSX on mine, it didn't have the iBook screen profile. Eventually after a permissions repair and restart it came up. Otherwise the colors looked like crap on mine too. I think I've just given up hope on my iBook. The sound doesn't work anymore, the battery only lasts about 45 min and the backlight is really dim.

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id be happy to buy it off you

id be happy to buy it off you Smile i'm after an iBook

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