[gentoo-user] After attempting fb'ing with nvidia, xfce fonts are tiny.

[gentoo-user] After attempting fb'ing with nvidia, xfce fonts are tiny.

[cafairle]

So I started out compiling 2.6.12-r6 with frame buffer support adding in vesafb.
Tried various grub lines at various res's, got nothing but distorted console
fonts (started 1/3 way over on screen w/ wrap around plus a duplication on the
line at the start, only the very top line of the screen displayed correctly).
Tried rivafb, not compatable with nvidia driver, tried nvidiafb, no luck. Nvidia
driver wouldnt even load in any configuration i tried.

So I go to revert back to a kernel without framebuffering support (also tried
disabling RAM disc support needed for initrd) making NO changes to xorg.conf or
any xfce settings but when I log in, my system font size appeared much smaller.
This was apparent in applications like gnome-terminal, evolution, x-chat and
gkrellm. Firefox and xemacs displayed the correct fonts. Application windows
were the correct size, simply the fonts were smaller.

After changing my modeline, disabling composite support, 'emerge -Nva
nvidia-kernel' and various other solutions, no changet and various other
solutions, no change was seen.  was seen.

My question is, you know in gnome-terminal you can select whether to use "system
terminal font", what font is this? it seems to be the issue. I *could* simply
increase the font size in all affected apps but I shouldnt have to do that.

Others have suggested expliciting setting the dpi in xorg.conf but again, I
never had to do that before so why now? Right now its 75x75 dpi. I have no idea
what it was before this font issue.

My native resolution is 1680x1050 (17" wsxga LCD). I'm using nvidia 7667 w/ fast
write, side buffering and 8x agp enabled (not the most stable i know, but has
not been problematic).

Thanks,
Chris


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Re: [gentoo-user] After attempting fb'ing with nvidia, xfce fonts are tiny.

[Tero Grundström]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, cafairle@engmail.uwaterloo.ca wrote:

> My question is, you know in gnome-terminal you can select whether to use "system
> terminal font", what font is this? it seems to be the issue. I *could* simply
> increase the font size in all affected apps but I shouldnt have to do that.

It is your Terminal font setting in the Gnome font preferences. You can 
change it with 'gnome-font-properties'.


> Others have suggested expliciting setting the dpi in xorg.conf but again, I
> never had to do that before so why now? Right now its 75x75 dpi. I have no idea
> what it was before this font issue.

How are you starting xfce? The xfce startup scripts should override the 
default dpi setting with 96 dpi. If it doesn't you could try that value 
in xorg.conf


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Re: [gentoo-user] After attempting fb'ing with nvidia, xfce fonts are tiny.

[Richard Fish]

cafairle@engmail.uwaterloo.ca wrote:

>Others have suggested expliciting setting the dpi in xorg.conf but again, I
>never had to do that before so why now? Right now its 75x75 dpi. I have no idea
>what it was before this font issue.
>  
>

And does this work for you?  Or do you still have issues with fonts?

FYI, one "reason" you might have to do this is because you have a high 
resolution display, and if X can read the actual dimensions of your 
display, it will calculate the horizontal and vertical DPI.  I'm not 
sure what combinations of kernel and X.org configuration options are 
required for this though.  You can also get the same effect from setting 
"DisplaySize" in xorg.conf.

In any case, you can check the DPI that X is using, and how it arrived 
at that value, by checking /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] After attempting fb'ing with nvidia, xfce fonts are tiny.

[Richard Fish]

cafairle@engmail.uwaterloo.ca wrote:

>So I started out compiling 2.6.12-r6 with frame buffer support adding in vesafb.
>Tried various grub lines at various res's, got nothing but distorted console
>fonts (started 1/3 way over on screen w/ wrap around plus a duplication on the
>line at the start, only the very top line of the screen displayed correctly).
>Tried rivafb, not compatable with nvidia driver, tried nvidiafb, no luck. Nvidia
>driver wouldnt even load in any configuration i tried.
>  
>

Sorry for the multiple replies, but did you happen to try the 
vbemode/nocrtc options with vesafb-tng?  See 
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt.

>My native resolution is 1680x1050 (17" wsxga LCD). I'm using nvidia 7667 w/ fast
>write, side buffering and 8x agp enabled (not the most stable i know, but has
>not been problematic).
>  
>

Does anything change if you disable these things???

-Richard

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