Comment 203 for bug 1870736

Revision history for this message
Brian Neltner (neltnerb) wrote : Re: [Bug 1870736] Re: [nvidia] Screen scaling 125% gives 200%

Fundamentally it's fair to blame nvidia's closed source drivers because the open source one seems to do fractional scaling properly.

Other than that what's the point in assigning blame? I'm not sure someone is even paying attention to this bug report, I probably would turn off notifications if it were me volunteering and trying to repair a closed source blob going constantly hassled about not fixing it yet. We really need to learn to be patient.

Maybe we can pitch in to pay someone to make the feature work. Until then...

-------- Original Message --------
On Sep 7, 2020, 5:09 PM, David Smoot wrote:

> I do not wish to sound ungrateful or entitled but this bug is literally
> the one show stopper that is preventing me from doing more work in
> Linux. I run a triple monitor setup and per monitor fractional scaling
> is a non-negotiable must for my work.
>
> Can someone explain the root of the problem?
>
> Is it poor driver support on Linux?
>
> Is it the desktop environment lacks mature support for this feature?
>
> Is it just very technically difficult and nobody has the time to handle
> all the possible combinations?
>
> Every day I sadly hold the space bar to bring up the boot menu to select
> Windows Boot Manager.
>
> Where is the limitation that prevents a solution here? What can be done
> to facilitate a fix?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1870736
>
> Title:
> [nvidia] Screen scaling 125% gives 200%
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1870736/+subscriptions