On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 08:30:53AM +0200, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > * Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-30 23:50]: > > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:22:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > > > I have a debian installation and I use a relatively high resolution > > > monitor (1600x1200). It works fine but it is convinced I have 75x75 > > > DPI, so everything is *very* small. Real resolution is about > > > 110x110 DPI. How can I convince xorg X server to use another > > > setting? > <...> > > In theory a 'DisplaySize' entry in the monitor section of your > > xorg.conf file should do it (see xorg.conf(1)) However I tried it > > myself a couple of days ago on my Debian Etch system <...> and > > couldn't get it to work. > <...> > > Let me know if you have better luck. If anyone has any idea what might > > be going wrong, please let me know. > > Hi, > > Depending on how you start X, you may be starting it with the -dpi > option. (my gdm.conf uses: `X -dpi 96') > AFAIK, this will override any DisplaySize settings in xorg.conf.
That was it! - except it was in /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf not /etc/gdm/gdm.con, which is why I missed it.. Beats me why a display manager would think that it had a better idea of the screen resolution than the X server, but its fixed now. Thanks, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
