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[Tony Whitmore <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xorg

I have a 32" Samsung TV connected to a Viglen MPC-L via VGA. When the
system boots with the VGA cable attached, X starts with a DPI of 29x39.
If X starts without a VGA cable attached, it starts with a DPI of 96x96.

X is obviously doing some autodetection to calculate an appropriate DPI
for a high resolution screen. However the size of text onscreen (in GDM,
in the main WM UI and most applications) is too small to read
comfortably, even close up to the screen.

96 DPI seems comfortable and allows the screen to be used from a
reasonable distance.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/.bin:/home/username/bin:/usr/bin/crunchbang:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.27-14-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu12) ) #1 SMP Wed Apr 15 18:59:16 UTC 2009

SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-14-generic i586
xkbcomp:

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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Incorrect autodetection of appropriate DPI
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394498
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