Re: 100dpi vs. 75dpi fonts in X

Lei Kong wrote: Thanks for the hint, now things looks all right now. My laptop screen is 14in 5:3 wide screen, guess that's why things got screwed up. Now I set the display size explicitly in xorg.conf, I am running debian testing. Is DisplaySize the only thing you did? No way to let the

Re: Re: 100dpi vs. 75dpi fonts in X

Thanks for the hint, now things looks all right now. My laptop screen is 14in 5:3 wide screen, guess that's why things got screwed up. Now I set the display size explicitly in xorg.conf, I am running debian testing. No way to let the machine detect the correct DPI automatically? guess that

Re: 100dpi vs. 75dpi fonts in X

Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like the two drivers run X at different DPI. Kinfocenter will tell you the DPI X thinks it's using (formatted xdpyinfo output). Indeed yes. The included nv driver uses 75 dpi, the non-free nvidia driver uses 111 dpi. /var/log/Xorg.0.log: (==) NV(0):

Re: 100dpi vs. 75dpi fonts in X

Curt Howland wrote Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:14:25 -0600 (CST): Felix Miata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like the two drivers run X at different DPI. Kinfocenter will tell you the DPI X thinks it's using (formatted xdpyinfo output). Indeed yes. The included nv driver uses 75 dpi, the

Re: 100dpi vs. 75dpi fonts in X

Curt Howland wrote: Hi. I'm finally getting the nVidia driver compiled/installed. That's the easy part. While using the nv driver, everything is fine. The nVidia driver loads fine, detects and utilizes AGP, but when X is being displayed, all the fonts are HUGE! Ok, I overstate. They