Ah thanks, we're in business now, I should have put the DefaultDepth in, that was just stupid. The font is still a little big, but smaller than before. My next step is kde 3.3 -> 3.4 so I'm just gonna wait on that. Well thanks for the help, my knowledge of X is slowly improving.
Lucien On 4/22/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lucien D. wrote: > > >Ok, making progress. I installed 6.8.2-r1, did X -configure and its > >working, well mostly. Two problems. > > > >well first, it seems like its running at a really high resolution, I > >always ran at 1600 which I thought was the highest this card could do > >(I vaguely remember it being the highest in windows). And at this > >resolution the refresh rate is not right, it seems awfully low. if I > >have a white background I can lines moving on the screen. > > > > > > A few things: > > My guess is that at a high resolution, the DPI is being calculated at > something like 100x100 or 133x133. While the calculation is technically > correct, it makes fonts look huge. And font configuration in X right > now is still a bit of a mess....so the only sane choice IMO is to run X > at 75x75dpi. > > So, I have one small edit for your xorg.conf: > > Section "Screen" > Identifier "Screen0" > Device "Card0" > Monitor "Monitor0" > DefaultDepth 24 > SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 > Modes "1600x1200" "1280x1024" > Depth 24 > EndSubSection > EndSection > > Replace "24" above with 16 if you want 16-bit color, I'm assuming you > don't. This should give you the right resolution, and probably fix your > fonts too. But if the fonts are still huge, add "-dpi 75" to the X > command line. For kdm (3.3), this will be > /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xservers, or kdm 3.4 this will be > /usr/kde/3.4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, I don't know for gdm. > > If something else seems wrong, post /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and "xdpyinfo | > grep -A 30 ^screen". > > -Richard > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
