Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:00:29 +0100 (MET) From: Roine Thunberg <artee@astrakan.hig.se> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: font failure in X Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.33.0301072348340.1320-100000@cardinal> In-Reply-To: <1041964804.603.3.camel@leguin>
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On 7 Jan 2003, Eric Anholt wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 13:25, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 02:46:49 +0100 (MET) > > Roine Thunberg <artee@astrakan.hig.se> wrote: > > > > > I recently installed 5.0-RC2 and X from ports and some programs too. > > > > > > Now I have trouble with huge font sizes. Mainly in webbrowsers. But it's > > > only some kind of fonts. I just can't find the options and I can't see any > > > logs telling me what's wrong. Seems like the fonts use the size 100 > > > instead of 10 or 12 that they normally do... suggestions ? > > > > Sometimes I get this too. I restart X or have to reboot then and > > everything goes back to normal operation. > > > > Bye, > > Alexander. > > One thing good might be to check your DisplaySize (grep Display > /var/log/XFree86.0.log), since your DPI is calculated from that and > things are using the DPI to calculate font sizes more and more. For > some reason it's probed wrong on my system (2500mm x 2500mm or some > such). Adding the following line to my XF86Config's Monitor section > fixed it. > DisplaySize 310 270 > > If this is the problem, could you tell me what card you're using? > That did actually helped me. Thanks Eric. Without "DisplaySize" it probed... (--) ATI(0): Display dimensions: (10, 10) mm (--) ATI(0): DPI set to (3251, 2600) With "DisplaySize 310 270" (**) ATI(0): Display dimensions: (310, 270) mm (WW) ATI(0): Probed monitor is 10x10 mm, using Displaysize 310x270 mm (**) ATI(0): DPI set to (104, 96) <snip from /var/log/XFree86.0.log> (--) ATI(0): ATI 3D Rage Pro graphics controller detected. (--) ATI(0): Chip type 4742 "GB", version 4, foundry UMC, class 0, revision 0x01 . (--) ATI(0): AGP bus interface detected; block I/O base is 0xC000. (--) ATI(0): ATI Mach64 adapter detected. (!!) ATI(0): For information on using the multimedia capabilities of this adapter, please see http://gatos.sf.net. (--) ATI(0): Internal RAMDAC (subtype 1) detected. (==) ATI(0): RGB weight 888 (==) ATI(0): Default visual is TrueColor (==) ATI(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0) (II) ATI(0): Using Mach64 accelerator CRTC. <snip> ------------------------- Roine Thunberg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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