Every DELL monitor I've ever owned gave false info - usually reporting a much lower dpi than they really are (actually, they exaggerate the size). My current 17" claims to be a 19", for example, even though the diagonal measure to the outside corners of the unit doesn't even make 19", never mind the actual screen (which is exactly 17" corner to corner). So X comes up with 84dpi when it's really 96dpi. How much of a diff that makes to a user I leave to the user - for me, I don't bother to edit XF86Config-4 for it, but when I'm in there setting up nvidia, I set the DisplaySize correctly, if I remember.
-- Murray J. Root [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email (404) 978-1262 x2646 - voicemail/fax ---- Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sebastian Dransfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 21 Mar 2002, Pixel wrote: > > > > > ok, if I accept the idea of having this set correctly, why isn't > it set > > > correctly by default? On by box the X server nicely finds out everything > based > > > on DDC: > [...] > > Because DDC doesn't always work. > > it works on any recent hardware i've tested. Are they really that much > hardware for which DDC is failing? > > __________________________________________________ Voicemail, email, and fax...all in one place. Sign Up Now! http://www.onebox.com
