On 7 Jan 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 13:25, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 02:46:49 +0100 (MET)
> > Roine Thunberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I recently installed 5.0-RC2 and X from ports and some programs too.
> > >
> > > Now I have trouble with huge font sizes. Mainly in webbrowsers. But it's
> > > only some kind of fonts. I just can't find the options and I can't see any
> > > logs telling me what's wrong. Seems like the fonts use the size 100
> > > instead of 10 or 12 that they normally do... suggestions ?
> >
> > Sometimes I get this too. I restart X or have to reboot then and
> > everything goes back to normal operation.
> >
> > Bye,
> > Alexander.
>
> One thing good might be to check your DisplaySize (grep Display
> /var/log/XFree86.0.log), since your DPI is calculated from that and
> things are using the DPI to calculate font sizes more and more. For
> some reason it's probed wrong on my system (2500mm x 2500mm or some
> such). Adding the following line to my XF86Config's Monitor section
> fixed it.
> DisplaySize 310 270
>
> If this is the problem, could you tell me what card you're using?
>
That did actually helped me. Thanks Eric.
Without "DisplaySize" it probed...
(--) ATI(0): Display dimensions: (10, 10) mm
(--) ATI(0): DPI set to (3251, 2600)
With "DisplaySize 310 270"
(**) ATI(0): Display dimensions: (310, 270) mm
(WW) ATI(0): Probed monitor is 10x10 mm, using Displaysize 310x270 mm
(**) ATI(0): DPI set to (104, 96)
<snip from /var/log/XFree86.0.log>
(--) ATI(0): ATI 3D Rage Pro graphics controller detected.
(--) ATI(0): Chip type 4742 "GB", version 4, foundry UMC, class 0,
revision 0x01
.
(--) ATI(0): AGP bus interface detected; block I/O base is 0xC000.
(--) ATI(0): ATI Mach64 adapter detected.
(!!) ATI(0): For information on using the multimedia capabilities
of this adapter, please see http://gatos.sf.net.
(--) ATI(0): Internal RAMDAC (subtype 1) detected.
(==) ATI(0): RGB weight 888
(==) ATI(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) ATI(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(II) ATI(0): Using Mach64 accelerator CRTC.
<snip>
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Roine Thunberg
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