Re: [gentoo-user] (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to 508 x 317

2010-07-16 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Erik esi...@gmail.com wrote: (There are other issues with this video device; it shows only 25 × 80 characters in the virtual terminals (should be 75 × 240). This is the new Dell vostro|1720 from November, that replaced the old INSPIRON|8600 aquired 5 years

Re: [gentoo-user] (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to 508 x 317

2010-07-16 Thread Erik
2010-07-16 09:49, Robert Bridge skrev: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Erik esi...@gmail.com wrote: (There are other issues with this video device; it shows only 25 × 80 characters in the virtual terminals (should be 75 × 240). This is the new Dell vostro|1720 from November, that

Re: [gentoo-user] (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to 508 x 317

2010-07-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:14:34 +0200, Erik wrote: My /etc/make.conf has VIDEO_CARDS=nv but I thought it was obvious from the NV in the log message. The actual hardware is reported by lspci as 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9600M GS] (rev a1). I tried to use

[gentoo-user] (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to 508 x 317

2010-07-15 Thread Erik
The problem is this line in /var/log/Xorg.0.log: (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to 508 x 317 I have measured the screen and it is actually (approximately) 368 × 230. This error causes fonts to be shown in the wrong size (too small). I think that the fonts became smaller after some