Re: [gentoo-user] DPI is giving me a headache!

[Mick]

On Sunday 02 March 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sonntag, 2. März 2008, Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I changed the monitor on a box that runs kdm/KDE and the fonts on KDE
> > apps are giving me a headache from eye strain.  This is particularly bad
> > when working at a console (white letters on black background) and KDE
> > text editors (with black letters on white background).  Essentially, the
> > antiailiasing seems to alter the consistency of fonts in an irregular
> > manner causing them to blur (differently) across the screen, as if the
> > monitor resolution is out of sync.
> >
> > The resolution in xorg.conf is set at 360 290 mm, but the DDC picks this
> > up on its own anyway, whether I define it in xorg.conf, or not.  I have
> > no modeline set.  All I can think that is amiss is the DPI.  I seem to be
> > getting a DPI of 90x89:
> >
> > $ xdpyinfo | grep resolution
> >   resolution:    90x89 dots per inch
> >
> > Could this be the cause of my headache and how should I fix it?
>
> post your xorg.conf? drivers? increase font size?

Please find xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log attached.  I am using the xorg radeon 
driver.  The font size is just right, would not like to increase it.

This is the PCI express controller:
 *-pci:0
             description: PCI bridge
             product: 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL PCI Express Root Port
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1
             bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
             version: 04
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci pm msi pciexpress normal_decode bus_master 
cap_list

This is the video card:

# lshw
 *-display:0 UNCLAIMED
                description: VGA compatible controller
                product: RV380 0x3e50 [Radeon X600]
                vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                version: 00
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list
                configuration: latency=0

# lspci -v
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV380 0x3e50 [Radeon 
X600] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 0328
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at b000 [size=256]
        Memory at cfee0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Expansion ROM at cfec0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00

01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV380 [Radeon X600] 
(Secondary)
        Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Unknown device 0329
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
        Memory at cfef0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [58] Express Endpoint, MSI 00

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Regards,
Mick