(In reply to comment #58) > There may have been a time when that was the case, but this was filed by an > Intel video user long before KMS was required by the Intel driver. Obviously > from the attachment, using no xorg.conf, xrandr, xorg.conf.d/ or anything else > to force DPI, "always" is not the much more recent case. Display used is 20" > 4:3 1400x1050 Viewsonic several years old.
>From your own log: [ 35.477] (**) intel(0): Display dimensions: (410, 310) mm [ 35.477] (**) intel(0): DPI set to (86, 86) ... [ 35.914] (II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 370 x 277 Which means: $ qalc '1400 / (370 mm to inch)' 1400 / (370 * millimeter) = approx. 96.108108 / in $ qalc '1050 / (277 mm to inch)' 1050 / (277 * millimeter) = approx. 96.281588 / in Wanna' bet 'xdpyinfo | grep reso' on your machine shows resolution: 96x96 dots per inch ? :) Regards, Andrei P.S. I get the same "resizing" to 96 dpi with latest Xorg + nouveau from Debian unstable, so this is not limited to intel -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521877 Title: [gm45] wrong screen size detected on X200s To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/521877/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp