From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 13:12:28 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 DC24D16A41F for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:12:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2476543D46 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:12:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (dazwtc@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j7ODCPWL017783; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:12:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j7ODCPl0017781; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:12:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <200508241312.j7ODCPl0017781@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:12:25 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <200508242150.19809.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> from "Daniel O'Connor" at Aug 24, 2005 09:50:12 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:36:45 +0000 Cc: Subject: Re: fontsize and dpi (was Re: Beta2: Nice job!) 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 13:12:29 -0000 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tuesday 23 August 2005 23:22, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > I haven't seen any cases recently where the DPI was > > set correctly by default. I always had to specify it > > explicitly. On my newest machine (resolution is > > 1400 x 1050 pixels on a 15" TFT screen) I had to set > > it to 120 DPI. The default was 75. > > Strange it doesn't get the dimensions from the monitor > like you'd expect :( Well, it's not a big problem, I just put "-dpi 120" in my ~/.xserverrc and be done with it. I also have a feeling that it might be better to measure and set the DPI myself instead of trusting autodetect mechanisms. I'm certainly just overly paranoid, though. :-) > That works here on a 17" LCD (BenQ) as well as my 15.1" > LCD panel in a Dell laptop. In my case it's a Notebook with 1400x1050 15" screen and i915 graphics. Initially it ran with the VESA driver, which worked perfectly fine, but maybe it doesn't support the DDC thingy. I switched to the i810 driver yesterday (had to install the latest X.org snapshot package). Maybe the DPI autodetection works now; I'll give it a try. BTW, Opera looks _really_ nice at that resolution and antialiased fonts. Browsing the web is a real pleasure now. :-) Oh, by the way -- and finally on-topic: I guess there is no chance that kern/79139 will be commited in time for 6.0-Release, right? Will it be committed to RELENG_6 shortly after? I'm surprised that the PR is still open for several months now. The patch is fairly trivial and adds PCIe support for the i915 chipset which is very common today. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker" -- Daniel C. Sobral