SOLVED - xorg giant fonts

sa · 2008-12-04 02:00:45

well, before I thought to comment out the rgb line in my xorg.conf, i reinstalled the entire xorg package. when i commented out the line and got X working again, my fonts were suddenly huge. i don't know what to do about this and I haven't seen any other instances of this bizarre issue. i tried starting X with and without my xorg.conf file, fc-cache -vf, reconfiguring GTK+ settings and all. what can I do about this?

Last edited by sa (2008-12-04 03:06:13)

rson451 · 2008-12-04 02:06:49

My first thought would be to check dpi settings. You can find out the current dpi by running xdpyinfo on the command line and search through it.

sa · 2008-12-04 02:27:30

i tried adding to .fonts.conf:

<match target="pattern">
        <edit name="dpi" mode="assign"><double>100</double></edit>
     </match>

also tried this for xorg.conf:

exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -dpi 96

added this to the device section

  Option   "UseEdidDpi" "false"
  Option   "DPI" "96 x 96"

added this to the monitor section

DisplaySize 506 315 # 96 DPI @ 1920x1200 (non 4:3 aspect)

but after restarting it still says my DPI is 147:

[sa@psd ~]$ xdpyinfo | grep -B1 dot
  dimensions:    1920x1200 pixels (331x207 millimeters)
  resolution:    147x147 dots per inch

rson451 · 2008-12-04 02:29:24

Are you using any propriatary graphics drivers?

sa · 2008-12-04 02:30:43

yes, nvidia-177.82-1. is there something i foolishly overlooked?

rson451 · 2008-12-04 02:36:03

Try the following in your Device section of xorg.conf.

  Option      "UseEdidDpi" "false"
  Option      "DPI" "96 x 96"

I use nvidia and I've got that in my xorg.conf. My dpi is running correctly.

EDIT: Err. you already did that....

Try my .fonts.conf: http://rsontech.net/dotfiles/laptop/.fonts.conf

Also, I've got dpi settings in my .Xdefaults, maybe that will help? http://rsontech.net/dotfiles/laptop/.Xdefaults

And my xorg.conf incase that helps: http://rafb.net/p/TaxcxC79.html

Last edited by rson451 (2008-12-04 02:41:33)

sa · 2008-12-04 02:42:33

hmm, I am using your .fonts.conf and DPI settings from .Xdefaults. before certain things were the proper size and certain things were huge, now everything is huge. i'll mess with things a bit more and see if I can track down the problem. thanks so far!

i am still getting a large resolution though, need to track down the source of that:

[sa@psd ~]$ xdpyinfo | grep -B1 dot
  dimensions:    1920x1200 pixels (331x207 millimeters)
  resolution:    147x147 dots per inch

Last edited by sa (2008-12-04 02:45:17)

rson451 · 2008-12-04 02:50:22

Check your /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc?

I also just realized that I have DisplaySize set in xorg.conf too. (It's been a while since I've done this stuff)

Last edited by rson451 (2008-12-04 02:54:06)

sa · 2008-12-04 02:54:18

haha i finally got it. i had xf86-video-nv and nvidia-beta drivers installed, and it was looking at the xf86 drivers. pointed it to nvidia and everything is peachy again. thanks so much for your help.

Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "KWADRO EFFEX 570 EMMMM"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "UseEdidDpi" "false"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
EndSection

rson451 · 2008-12-04 03:02:50

No problem. Glad it was something simple and not some hidden crazy setting somewhere.

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