Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Radeon driver update
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:13:56
Message-Id: 495B700A.5070007@ercbroadband.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Radeon driver update by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Mittwoch 31 Dezember 2008, Mark Haney wrote:
3 >> I updated the xf86-ati-driver package late yesterday and now my fonts
4 >> are all screwed up. My text is really big compared to what it was
5 >> before. I thought maybe xorg.conf was re-written but it looks fine to
6 >> me. As it is, my system is usable but not comfortably so. So what the
7 >> devil have I done to it?
8 >
9 > probably different DPI. Check your Xorg.0.log
10 >
11 > you can set it in xorg.conf. Maybe earlier driver did not read edid correctly?
12 >
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14 You got me, I don't know what the old DPI was. This one says '98 x 98
15 dots per inch'. I don't really know if that helps.
16 I'm wondering how to get back to the old driver?
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Radeon driver update Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>