Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Radeon driver update
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:44:31
Message-Id: 200901010144.21724.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Radeon driver update by Mark Haney
1 On Mittwoch 31 Dezember 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
2 > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Mittwoch 31 Dezember 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
4 > >> I updated the xf86-ati-driver package late yesterday and now my fonts
5 > >> are all screwed up. My text is really big compared to what it was
6 > >> before. I thought maybe xorg.conf was re-written but it looks fine to
7 > >> me. As it is, my system is usable but not comfortably so. So what the
8 > >> devil have I done to it?
9 > >
10 > > probably different DPI. Check your Xorg.0.log
11 > >
12 > > you can set it in xorg.conf. Maybe earlier driver did not read edid
13 > > correctly?
14 >
15 > You got me, I don't know what the old DPI was. This one says '98 x 98
16 > dots per inch'. I don't really know if that helps.
17 > I'm wondering how to get back to the old driver?
18
19 why go back, just try different DPI's - and even better, check the information
20 of your monitor.