I can confirm this bug. I've been using Xorg's "radeon" driver from
xserver-xorg-video-ati in Feisty to display on an LCD TV. My situation
is complicated by two things. First, like a lot TVs (as opposed to
monitors), mine reports incorrect EDID information over VGA and DVI. It
claims to have a size of 4cm x 3cm, with is not only impossibly small,
but the wrong aspect ratio, since it's a 16:9 TV. Second, since I'm
running MythTV, which misuses the DPI information and always wants
100x100 DPI regardless of actual display size, I had to manufacture a
DisplaySize that is different from both the actual dimensions and what
the TV reports.

Just yesterday, I upgraded to Gutsy and discovered that text in a
terminal emulator was unreadably small (about 1 to 2 pixels high) and
video was scaled to a narrow strip an inch or two high in the middle of
the screen. Though X still reported that it was using 100x100 DPI in
"/var/log/Xorg.0.log", xdpyinfo reported 52x6 DPI. So, apparently, X
lies about the DPI in the log, ignoring the explicitly set DisplaySize
for the DPI reported to clients. If I use the same /etc/X11/xorg.conf,
but run "X -dpi 100", both the log and xdpyinfo report 100x100 DPI.

** Attachment added: "My xorg.conf"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10064181/xorg.conf

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DPI is set incorrectly by new driver, even when DisplaySize is set in xorg.conf
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/141146
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