Xorg update, i810, gargantuant fonts!!! [solved]

orange_juice · Last edited by orange_juice on Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:50 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hallo,

I have just upgraded to the most recent xorg, and although my mother's laptop was working great, now all the fonts (from the kdm start screen to kde desktop) are huge.

I mean that, when kdm loads, the word "username" does not feet on screen!!!!

The kde's menu cannot appear and I see only a couple of thumbnails which feet on screen while the desktop's photo is OK.

Where should I start looking or what should I start posting?

Kind regards,
orange_juice

termite · Guru Joined: 06 May 2007 Posts: 466

The problem is that the new driver doesn't set the dpi correctly. There's a bug about this somewhere.

Try this: edit your /usr/bin/startx file, look for the line

orange_juice · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:40 am Post subject:

Thank you!

That did the trick when starting Xorg from command line with startx.

However, when I reboot, kdm and kde (when it starts from kdm) will boot with those huge fonts.

Where else should I add the -dpi 96 option to correct this issue?

Kind regards,
orange_juice

termite · Guru Joined: 06 May 2007 Posts: 466

I thought that might happen. I changed it somewhere else, been trying to figure out where...

I'll edit this when I find it.

Edit: try /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. There's a line that starts with

orange_juice · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject:

Thank you very much!

Everything works great now!

Kind regards,
orange_juice

termite · Guru Joined: 06 May 2007 Posts: 466

No problem.

By the way, this is actually masking a pretty serious bug - dpi should not be a manual setting, but should rather be calculated from the screen dimensions, which the driver is for some reason ignoring or mis-setting. I really hope the guys at intel will fix this for the next release of the driver.

orange_juice · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:28 pm Post subject:

Intel ... I see ...

The fact that it was working until now probably reveals an omission.

Tiny details, are the beauty of computer world!

Kind regards,
orange_juice