I may not agree with the tone that appears a bit aggressive, but the observations by Tfa7 appear to be correct.
Furthermore, with reference to the justification that there are monitors that report wrong/crazy EDID values, I really do not think that the majority of users who have bought and paid properly working monitors should suffer from others' broken hardware by having their system ignore the correct EDID info that their monitors can report. Given the discussion of the xorg developers, I really think that this should be fixed downstream or (temporarily) in a PPA. And it should be done *quickly*, since things like newer Apple machines with retina displays, Google's Chromebook Pixel, Toshiba's Kirabook, newer Sharp's displays at 11.6", 14", and 15.6" (235-262 PPI), Sharp's 13.3" display (221 PPI), Samsung's newer 13.3" displays (276 PPI) and tons of newer high-end displays will be all badly broken by the hardwired 96dpi setup. Please rise the priority accordingly to this new wave of hardware. And if possible, have someone remove the wishlist status on the freedesktop bug tracker, since this looks more like a regression. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/589485 Title: Ignores physical display size and calculates based on 96DPI Status in X.Org X server: Confirmed Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: The X server, starting with 1.7, ignores the physical size reported by the EDID or in xorg.conf and calculates it based on screen resolution and a DPI of 96. This is rather annoying for users of high DPI screens. GNOME and KDE (used?) to set 96 DPI by default in their settings. We should check whether they still do, and if so let them handle this; I don't think X should be handling this. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xorg-server/+bug/589485/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
