text blurry (slurred) on ubuntu maverick 10.10

[user1]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:23:12 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:

> Ric Moore wrote:
>> On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 14:43 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> > On 13 August 2011 10:12, user1 <bqz69 at telia.com> wrote:
>> > > I am using ubuntu maverick 10.10.
>> > > 
>> > > The text on the screen becomes slurred and blurry and almost
>> > > unreadable from time to time?
>> > 
>> > You will need to provide a lot more information.

 
> sudo lshw -c display
> 
> in a terminal reveals the wanted details about your graphics hardware.
> Another useful info is the native resolution of the monitor and the
> actually used resolution. The command
> 
> xrandr
> 
> should reveal that detail. If the used resolution isn't the native
> resolution of the monitor, it could become blurry - depending on the
> scaling factor. I'm not sure if that is true for a CRT monitor, but LCDs
> don't work too well with lower resolution than the native one.
> 
> 
> Nils

####

~$ sudo lshw -c display
[sudo] password for user1: 
  *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G86 [GeForce 8400M GS]
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci at 0000:05:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list 
rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:19 memory:ce000000-ceffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff 
memory:cc000000-cdffffff ioport:4000(size=128)

~$ xrandr
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 1440 x 900, maximum 1440 x 900
default connected 1440x900+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1440x900       50.0* 
   1360x768       51.0     52.0  
   1152x864       53.0  
   1024x768       54.0     55.0     56.0     57.0  
   960x600        58.0  
   960x540        59.0  
   840x525        60.0     61.0     62.0  
   832x624        63.0  
   800x600        64.0     65.0     66.0     67.0     68.0     69.0     
70.0  
   800x512        71.0  
   720x450        72.0  
   720x400        73.0  
   700x525        74.0     75.0     76.0  
   680x384        77.0     78.0  
   640x512        79.0     80.0     81.0  
   640x480        82.0     83.0     84.0     85.0     86.0     87.0  
   640x400        88.0  
   640x350        89.0  
   576x432        90.0     91.0     92.0     93.0     94.0     95.0     
96.0  
   512x384        97.0     98.0     99.0    100.0    101.0  
   416x312       102.0  
   400x300       103.0    104.0    105.0    106.0    107.0  
   360x200       108.0  
   320x240       109.0    110.0    111.0    112.0  
   320x200       113.0  
   320x175       114.0  


Here are specifications of my HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop
http://www.minihowto.org/hp_dv9540_spec.html

I have googled for an answer, and it seems that this problem is well 
known to other people as well :-)