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[Arkashkin <arkashkin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
Maybe you know how I can do your workaround if I use Gnome and not KDE ?

Thanks.

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Achim Bohnet <allee@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dell Latitude D600 still shows the bug running karmic beta 1:
> Displaysize is notauto detected and dpi set to 96 dpi instead of the
> real 124 dpi.  With the size im mm adjusted to the artificial 96dpi.
> xdpyinfo:
>
> ...
> screen #0:
>  dimensions:    1400x1050 pixels (370x277 millimeters)
>  resolution:    96x96 dots per inch
> ...
>
>
> Workaround: as karmic does not use xorg.conf in the default setup, I've
> modified /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc to
> start the xserver with the options -dpi 124.
>
> Sadly, it looks like radeon driver will never get it right :(
> Achim
>
> ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log"
>   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/33131409/Xorg.0.log
>
> --
> ati radeon driver does not autodetect displaysize on Latitude D600,
> therefore uses wrong resolution
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80940
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>
> Status in “xorg” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-driver-ati
>
> Since Hoary up to Feisty Herd2, the xorg ati/radeon driver never detected
> the right physical
> dimension of the display.  So  dpi is set to 75 instead of 125.  This
> results
> in fonts that almost half as wide and height as it should be.
>
> Using DisplaySize in Monitor section of xorg.conf  fixes it, but that's not
> autodetection
> (as works perfect with i810 on other laptops)
>
> $ grep DisplaySize /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>        DisplaySize     286 214
>
> $ xdpyinfo | egrep 'dimens|resolu'
>  dimensions:    1400x1050 pixels (287x215 millimeters)
>  resolution:    124x124 dots per inch
>
>

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ati radeon driver does not autodetect displaysize on Latitude D600, therefore uses wrong resolution
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80940
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