From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N00Bd-0003Uo-EP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:54:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0375DE086A; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:54:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f224.google.com (mail-gx0-f224.google.com [209.85.217.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8642E08A0 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:54:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so12200552gxk.6 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:54:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=mNstOb8JQErRHiuiMBqqQFF3cO/R6paf2GOHYIC0R1Q=; b=k/BFmGK+PIIt9apX7VwK1IN03q0LTke3IYmga/Z0Pw3QWmjrGDqTb2hwQY/ku8ihVV 4NpyGusyiC/4qqAMZXAAEren/XGquJGmwdh+unvQlh8dvtCPswW4LeNMkMTEit88o6Sd soAuEjJw64JWxyWpwKRRvONmv4wEauXXoKtJs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=DUSbBcHvE0kPYhS5Di/CEoxmG36rRLl/C6eyYQUQzdkDmPNX9ZZpo5aa2W6Tm+zmqh m14HfswYC8ZBWDB/HKIQsF17xXrStE4qvzVfACfthls0eEo/jQcKHCDoZEiABN3vRHMe x9uus+Vh4VipK1kyWBczoM8P6UKc/n3PTPGdQ= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.151.16.3 with SMTP id t3mr9095976ybi.117.1255989279561; Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:54:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <58965d8a0910191338h6c6368a7o3e902b29f586009e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:54:39 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 12116c41deb0a20f Message-ID: <58965d8a0910191454v6acb686clcc7b227227d06c@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: big fonts after Xorg update From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: 08d346ea-248a-4116-bbfa-9cb727e77c5e X-Archives-Hash: 2635ba64d5d621585cc38ac2c95f289f On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * Paul Hartman (Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:38:12 -0500) >> >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Thorsten Kampe >> wrote: > >> > That was the solution. I checked the resolution before the upgrade with >> > "xdpyinfo | grep resolution" (Tip from the German list): 75 dpi. >> > Afterwards: 96 dpi. Setting it to 75 solved the issue. >> > >> > I'd still like to know what exactly changed and if 75 or 96 is the >> > "correct" value. Nevertheless, I have Xorg server 1.6 running and it >> > looks fine. >> >> Divide your screen resolution (pixels) by its visible area (inches) to >> get DPI. For example my monitor screen is 16 inches wide and 12 inches >> tall and I use 1600x1200 resolution. That is 100dpi. In my system this >> is autodetected when xorg starts (maybe the nvidia drivers do it?). > > This is a VMware virtual machine using a virtual monitor on a physical > machine with two physical monitors. I'm not sure whether calculating DPI > that way would lead to meaningfull results for the virtual machine. This > whole "hard" setting of DPI for a monitor seems anachronistic to me. I think the DPI of the monitor would still be valid in the vmware window, just set it to that of your physical monitor and I think it should be the same. The size of 1 pixel in the vmware window should be the same as the size of 1 pixel in your monitor normally. If your two monitors are not the same DPI then things could be complicated though. I don't use multi-monitors so I'm unfamiliar with how that would work. In my Xorg.0.log I see these lines among others from the Nvidia driver initialization: (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 2048 x 1152 (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (101, 100); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config (--) NVIDIA(0): option Not sure how it works for other video drivers. On this one, at least, the DPI is set automatically.