From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 21:58:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ACB116A41F for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:58:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A17643D45 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:58:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from mail-in-07-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.19]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6FA53B0E for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:58:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) by mail-in-07-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85A0013BB60 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:58:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lofi.dyndns.org (dsl-213-023-194-048.arcor-ip.net [213.23.194.48]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7507D605C2 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:58:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from kiste.my.domain (root@kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7OLwhT8011233 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:58:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from kiste.my.domain (lofi@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kiste.my.domain (8.13.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7OLwhJv097361 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:58:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by kiste.my.domain (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j7OLwgC1097360 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:58:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lofi@freebsd.org) X-Authentication-Warning: kiste.my.domain: lofi set sender to lofi@freebsd.org using -f From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:58:37 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200508231352.j7NDqmGo068047@lurza.secnetix.de> <200508241451.58083.lofi@freebsd.org> <86y86r797k.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <86y86r797k.fsf@xps.des.no> X-Face: =Ym$`&q\+S2X$4`X%x%6"L4>Y,$]<":'L%c9"#7#`2tb&E&wsN31on!N\)3BD[g<=?utf-8?q?=2EjnfV=5B=0A=093=23?=>XchLK,o; >bD>c:]^; :>0>vyZ.X[,63GW`&M>}nYnr]-Fp``,[[@lJ!QL|sfW!s)=?utf-8?q?A2!*=0A=09vNkB/=7CL-?=>&QdSbQg X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 21:58:49 -0000 --nextPart3026323.HLvAqflaQd Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 24. August 2005 15:31, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > Michael Nottebrock writes: > > On Tuesday, 23. August 2005 15:52, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > > I haven't seen any cases recently where the DPI was set correctly > > > by default. > > > > The key to DPMS-assisted dpi detection [...] > > DPMS has nothing to do with display size or resolution.=20 True, the proper set of capitals to use here would be DDC/EDID. Most, if no= t=20 all graphics card drivers in xorg now support the Option "IgnoreEDID" (to go into Section "Device") which implies that by default, they should us= e=20 EDID data for determining the display size / DPI. I'm pretty sure I'm not=20 completely imagining the requirement for the dpms option to make that=20 actually work though, but perhaps it's no longer the case, or it's another= =20 one of those config parser bloopers. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart3026323.HLvAqflaQd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDDO2SXhc68WspdLARAi88AKCfDbi3IjOR40VJ1jf8CNJ0KdgHgQCeLZ4w fyY0rzCqVe9ysWKeRCmCn2A= =7FPm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3026323.HLvAqflaQd--