From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 24 21:22:43 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348141065673 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:22:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053B38FC19 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:22:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (ool-435559b8.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.89.184]) by mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0KCE00A3LGPTRR70@mta2.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:22:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from flosoft.no-ip.biz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by flosoft.no-ip.biz (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mBOLMeWC063620; Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:22:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:22:40 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" In-reply-to: <20081224220216.92be9454.freebsd@edvax.de> To: Polytropon Message-id: <4952A820.6020302@gmail.com> Organization: FloSoft Systems MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 References: <49526071.4030305@gmail.com> <20081224220216.92be9454.freebsd@edvax.de> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081124) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Really strange resolution problems on xorg with a laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: aryeh.friedman@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:22:43 -0000 Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:16:49 -0500, "Aryeh M. Friedman" 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. > > > > How do I check that... btw your name seems familar ever use a public access freebsd machine called m-net?