On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 01:59:02PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Fri, 28 May 2004 11:11:32 +0200, Rein Klazes wrote: > > Why do you mean (wrong) ? Do you not get the dpi values used by X? Or is > > it that is uses the X values but those are wrong? > > Well, I talked a bit with Huw about this so apologies to him if I mangled > what he said, but ... it seems that the functions we use to get the size > of the screen don't always return correct values. I don't know why. > > > Here X gets it from the monitor at start-up (via the logic of the video > > card). I did not realize that my situation is not normal. > > If you mean via DDC then I guess this should work in most places, but for > whatever reason it does not work here :( In particular, xdpyinfo says: > > screen #0: > dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (321x241 millimeters) > resolution: 81x81 dots per inch > > So it appears to know the screen size (I measured with a ruler and > 321x241 is right), but it gets the DPI too small anyway. At 81 dpi the > text is hardly readable.
Well actually 1024 pixels in 321mm is about 81dpi, so the XServer is doing the sums correctly. I guess what we need to know is what resolution Windows returns on this same machine. Huw. -- Huw Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]
