On Wednesday 06 Feb 2002 22:06, Michael Hipp wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 February 2002 01:33 pm, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> > xdpyinfo|grep resol
>
> resolution: 90x96 dots per inch
>
> > then tell me how you run X? through xdm? or startx? or other?
>
> At this moment I boot straight into KDE when it enters runlevel 5. So I
> presume I'm using kdm. I have attempted to study the tangled path that
> starts x but never figured it out.
>
> Weird ... If I change it to boot up to runlevel 3. Doing either
> 'startx' or 'startkde' produces a grey screen but no KDE login. The
> only thing that seems to start KDE properly is 'telinit 5'.
>
> So any idea where I should put the -- dpi 100?
>
I do...
[00:32 peter@penguin:~]$ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (301x226 millimeters)
So then I edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 to add "DisplaySize" ...
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "CTX|CTX 1792UA"
VendorName "CTX"
ModelName "1792UA"
DisplaySize 300 226
HorizSync 30.0-95.0
VertRefresh 50.0-160.0
EndSection
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Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM.
Registered Linux User 219434. Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (Vitamin)
Kernel 2.4.8-34.1mdk-win4lin, XFree86 4.1.0, patch level 21mdk.
KDE: 2.2.2. Qt: 2.3.2. Up 6 hours 36 minutes.
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