Hello, Maybe you know how I can do your workaround if I use Gnome and not KDE ?
Thanks. On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Achim Bohnet <al...@kubuntu.org> wrote: > Dell Latitude D600 still shows the bug running karmic beta 1: > Displaysize is notauto detected and dpi set to 96 dpi instead of the > real 124 dpi. With the size im mm adjusted to the artificial 96dpi. > xdpyinfo: > > ... > screen #0: > dimensions: 1400x1050 pixels (370x277 millimeters) > resolution: 96x96 dots per inch > ... > > > Workaround: as karmic does not use xorg.conf in the default setup, I've > modified /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc to > start the xserver with the options -dpi 124. > > Sadly, it looks like radeon driver will never get it right :( > Achim > > ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log" > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33131409/Xorg.0.log > > -- > ati radeon driver does not autodetect displaysize on Latitude D600, > therefore uses wrong resolution > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80940 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: Invalid > Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Triaged > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-driver-ati > > Since Hoary up to Feisty Herd2, the xorg ati/radeon driver never detected > the right physical > dimension of the display. So dpi is set to 75 instead of 125. This > results > in fonts that almost half as wide and height as it should be. > > Using DisplaySize in Monitor section of xorg.conf fixes it, but that's not > autodetection > (as works perfect with i810 on other laptops) > > $ grep DisplaySize /etc/X11/xorg.conf > DisplaySize 286 214 > > $ xdpyinfo | egrep 'dimens|resolu' > dimensions: 1400x1050 pixels (287x215 millimeters) > resolution: 124x124 dots per inch > > -- ati radeon driver does not autodetect displaysize on Latitude D600, therefore uses wrong resolution https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80940 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ 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
