It could be something simple as the right fonts are not loaded and it's using a generic font to display.
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Mark Haney <[email protected]> wrote: > Duncan wrote: > >> "Mark Haney" <[email protected]> posted >> [email protected], excerpted below, on Wed, 31 Dec 2008 >> 07:03:39 -0500: >> >> I updated the xf86-ati-driver package late yesterday and now my fonts >>> are all screwed up. My text is really big compared to what it was >>> before. I thought maybe xorg.conf was re-written but it looks fine to >>> me. As it is, my system is usable but not comfortably so. So what the >>> devil have I done to it? >>> >> >> Knowing the version now... and in cases like this, the version before... >> often helps... >> > > I was running 6.6.3 and then updated to 6.8.0-r1. I'm not running ~amd64. > I'm not running any Xorg overlays, just plain jane Xorg. This system is a > laptop, so the config has been set (and working) for well over 2 years now. > >> >> FWIW, xf86-video-ati-6.9.0 here, on ~amd64, tho I've not updated in a few >> days so it's possible there's an update I've not seen yet if you're running >> ~amd64. Of course, if you're running the xorg overlay, who knows, tho Beso >> mentioned running it at one point if I'm not mistaken. >> >> As to the problem, what sort of monitor(s) are you running and do you have >> its dimensions set? In xorg log (Xorg.0.log), does the monitor detection >> list the dimensions and are they accurate? >> > > The dimensions look like they are set correctly (1280x800): > > (II) RADEON(0): Supported additional Video Mode: > (II) RADEON(0): clock: 68.9 MHz Image Size: 331 x 207 mm > (II) RADEON(0): h_active: 1280 h_sync: 1296 h_sync_end 1344 h_blank_end > 1408 h_border: 0 > (II) RADEON(0): v_active: 800 v_sync: 801 v_sync_end 804 v_blanking: 816 > v_border: 0 > > > I had to setup a 'Modeline' that corresponded to the correct dimension of > my monitor back when I first setup gentoo on this laptop. > >> >> The reason I ask is that over the years, I've discovered that various X >> component updates (I never pinned down which ones) can have radically >> different ways of calculating the defaults, and that the only way to >> reliably keep it the same was to put the screen measurements in xorg.conf. >> Since then, the drivers have supposedly gotten better at detecting it >> correctly from ddc, but at least with dual monitors and the video-ati driver >> mentioned above, xorg can still get it wrong (and does here, trying to apply >> the dimensions from just one to the combination of both, so the size is >> wildly distorted in one direction). >> >> One of the problems recently seems to be the RandR support, which is >> supposed to be better at "Plug-n-pray" live detection and adjustment, but >> which at least with the video-ati radeon driver on reasonably stable >> multi-monitor desktop system configs is still lacking features and version >> to version stability compared to the previous merged-framebuffer solution. >> >> So anyway, if you've not configured, either thru your desktop environment >> or xorg.conf, a standard dpi or display size (in mm not pixels), do so. It >> should go a long way to ending font size changes based on changeable xorg >> defaults. If your display config is static enough to configure it in xorg, >> the setting to configure is DisplaySize, in the Monitor section in newer >> RandR style configs (they put it there so you could specify them per >> monitor, since monitors are supposed to be plug-n-pray with RandR, now), I >> forgot where in old configs, but see the xorg.conf manpage. Or in KDE >> 3.5.10, you can set DPI in the main font config dialog. YMMV in other KDE >> versions or other DEs. >> >> > I don't think I've setup a standard DPI or display size in my xorg.conf > file. I don't recall doing so and I"ve not touched that config file in over > a year. How/where do I do that in xorg.conf? > > > > > -- > Frustra laborant quotquot se calculationibus fatigant pro inventione > quadraturae circuli > > Mark Haney > Sr. Systems Administrator > ERC Broadband > (828) 350-2415 > > Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support > > -- Chris Faulkner 615-653-4400 (Skype: chris.faulkner615) Linux/Unix/Windows Network Engineer LinkedIn TeamNashville Group: 1100+ members: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=76329 BBS Enthusiast group: http://groups.google.com/group/80sbbs
