Bug#363359: xserver-xorg: Resolution has changed from 100 dpi, to 75 dpi

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 14:41 -0400, Rob Bochan wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 April 2006 10:07, you wrote:
> >
> > Again, this must have been either due to the driver obtaining additional
> > information, e.g. via EDID, 
> 
> I have no idea how to figure that out. If you can tell me, I'd be glad to 
> provide any additional information that I can.

Basically, you'd have to compare config and log files from before and
after.


> > Weird, the command line switch should always override anything else.
> > Have you confirmed that the switch is actually passed to the X server,
> > e.g. using ps?
> 
> ps info from the laptop:
> rbochan@lap:~$ ps ax |grep x
> 1002 tty1     S+     0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startx -dpi 100
> 1018 tty1     S+     0:00 xinit xterm -dpi 		
> 100 -- -auth /home/rbochan/.serverauth.1002
> 1076 ?        S      0:00 xfe
> 
> Seems to show it properly, [...]

No, this shows *startx* being passed -dpi 100, not the X server. Try

startx -- -dpi 100


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