Re: [gentoo-user] font problem after xorg-server upgrade

[Harm Geerts]

On Wed, April 25, 2007 15:15, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> Yesterday after a normal emerge -uND world and reboot the fonts in X went
> haywire.  They all jumped in size to, I'm guessing, 100pt or more making
> KDE
> completely unusable.  After rebooting into the console and some
> investigation
> I discovered that if I downgraded to xorg-server 1.2.0-r3 (from 1.3.0.0)
> and
> xf86-video-i810 1.7.4 (from 2.0.0) the problem went away.  No config was
> changed during the emerge (except hdparm).
> Has anyone else had this problem?  Do I need to file a bug?  I'm snowed
> under
> with work this week so I don't have time to experiment.

I've had my share of font related problems and most of them were related
to changes to the DPI. You might find yourself in the same situation.

Drivers sometimes make an educated guess to set the DPI. If the driver or
X server changes the algorithm, the DPI changes and so does the appearance
of fonts. You can avoid this by setting the DPI[1] manually.

For other font related tips you can have a look at the gentoo wiki[2]

[1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Set_DPI_(Dots_Per_Inch)
[2] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts
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