Re: new driver causes too big fonts?

[Flavio Stanchina <flavio at stanchina dot net>]

Martin Jordan wrote:
> since the fglrx driver update 2 days ago all fonts (running xorg on 
> debian/unstable) are a way too big.

I had the same problem recently while I was testing a couple of old 
Matrox cards. AFAIK, X can be set to a display resolution of 75 or 100 
DPI and apparently different drivers have different ideas of the actual 
resolution. I don't know if drivers calculate the resolution from the 
monitor's DDC data (i.e. pixel size and physical dimensions) or if they 
use a fixed default.

You can probably fix it by editing /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers and adding the 
-dpi 100 or -dpi 75 option as appropriate. Or you can readjust all your 
font sizes and forget about it.

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Ciao, Flavio