Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:02:16 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: aryeh.friedman@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Really strange resolution problems on xorg with a laptop Message-ID: <20081224220216.92be9454.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <49526071.4030305@gmail.com> References: <49526071.4030305@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:16:49 -0500, "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a HP Pavilion dv5000 and any "standard" xorg app like xterm or > anything else that comes with xorg seems to work fine but every other X > application has either HUGE (one character fills the whole screen) fonts > and/or other weirdness (it could be fonts but who knows).... I just did > a complete reinstall from sources (portmaster).... the FB version is > 8-CURRENT (current as of last night) and the ports tree from the same time Check the DPI settings from your monitor and if they match the settings in xorg.conf. Some programs calculate font sizes according to these values. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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