On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, J. Grant wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction on this.
>
> I have a 45cm [17.7 inch] (diaganal), 36cm x 27.2cm CRT that I would
> like to configure with a screen mode that has the correct dpi. Currently
> displaying a 10cm x 10cm square at 72dpi ends up 7cm x 7.5cm. I could
> use the on-screen-display options to stretch the screen bigger, but then
> the whole screen is not visible.
>
> Currently i have a 1400x1050 modeline in use.
> I added:
>
> DisplaySize 360 272
>
> but that only changed it from (96, 98) to (98,98)
Which is exactly correct. 360x272 mm @ 1400x1050 is 98x98 dpi.
>
> In the XFree86.0.log file
> it says:
>
> (**) NV(0): DPI set to (98, 98)
>
> Is this generated by the driver? is it possible for me to set it to
> 72x72 as this is the conventional value...
>
I think "startx -- -dpi 72" probably works.
You'd proably not use the DisplaySize though, because there's an
obvious conflict with that display size and the dpi you want.
Mark.
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