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Loke

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-10-21

Posts: 139

[Solved] Tremendous fonts

Greetings,

I attemped to set up Arch on my laptop today, which I have done before, but due to a defect harddisk everything was gone including configurations.

My problem is that in X the fonts are TREMENDOUS. No really, I'm not exaggerating.
I've taken some pictures:

http://xs221.xs.to/xs221/07471/dsc01585.jpg
http://xs321.xs.to/xs321/07471/dsc01586.jpg

I don't really know what can be wrong - I've installed all the font-related packages that I have installed on my workstation (which works excellent), but it still doesn't help.
My xorg.conf is generated by hwd, however I have tried with xorgconfig and exactly the same problem occurs.

Here it is:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    RgbPath      "/usr/share/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load  "GLcore"
    Load  "glx"
    Load  "extmod"
    Load  "record"
    Load  "dri"
    Load  "dbe"
    Load  "xtrap"
    Load  "type1"
    Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option        "Protocol" "auto"
    Option        "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option        "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    #DisplaySize      330   210    # mm
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "LPL"
    ModelName    "0"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "NoAccel"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"               # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ColorKey"               # <i>
        #Option     "CacheLines"             # <i>
        #Option     "Dac6Bit"                # [<bool>]
        #Option     "DRI"                    # [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDC"                  # [<bool>]
        #Option     "ShowCache"              # [<bool>]
        #Option     "XvMCSurfaces"           # <i>
        #Option     "PageFlip"               # [<bool>]
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "intel"
    VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
    BoardName   "Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller"
    BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Thank you in advance.

Last edited by Loke (2007-11-19 18:25:19)

buttons

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 618

Re: [Solved] Tremendous fonts

You seem to have forgotten to give it a resolution.

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection

etc

Obv substitute my modes for your monitor's resolution.

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Loke

Member

From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-10-21

Posts: 139

Re: [Solved] Tremendous fonts

You seem to have forgotten to give it a resolution.

SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes    "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600"
EndSubSection

etc

Obv substitute my modes for your monitor's resolution.

I did have modes in the config generated by xorgconfig, where the same problem happened.
And just in case I tried to add modes to this one, but problem persists. Thanks anyways for your answer.

Loke

Member

From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-10-21

Posts: 139

Re: [Solved] Tremendous fonts

Ok I've figured that DPI was the problem. It is set to 112x968. xrandr --dpi 96x96 solves it, however I cannot seem to find a permanent solution to put in xorg.conf. I have tried
DisplaySize 325 203
under the monitor section which doesn't work.
I have also tried
Option "DPI" "96x96"
but problem persists.
Any ideas?

Loke

Member

From: Denmark

Registered: 2005-10-21

Posts: 139

Re: [Solved] Tremendous fonts

Ok figured that Option "NoDDC" makes it using the DisplaySize -- so it's working now. Cheers.