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Re: KDE, Xorg and DPI setting



On Saturday 25 February 2006 11:52, Robert Gomułka wrote:
> Hello, this is a copy of my /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers:
> :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt7
> :1 local@tty2 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp :1 vt8
> :2 local@tty3 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp :2 vt9
> :3 local@tty4 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp :3 vt10
> :4 local@tty5 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp :4 vt11
>
> But, when I run my Xwindows (via kdm automatic start) DPI is set to
> 75: (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1152 x 864
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): No size information available in CRT-0's EDID; cannot
> compute (WW) NVIDIA(0):      DPI from EDID.
> (==) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (75, 75); computed from built-in default
>
> But when I add Option DPI to xorg.conf, dpi is set properly.
>
> So my question is - is there any known problem with passing arguments
> from KDE (KDM) to xorg?
> I noticed this issue when I switched today to newer version of
> xserver-xorg. Actually because of problems between nvidia-glx package
> and xserver-xorg I held them manually about two-three months ago.
> Today I have finally managed to re-create nvidia package and wanted
> to test it out.
> Here is ps output (after adding DPI option to xorg.conf):
> $ ps auxw | grep X
> root      5051  1.7  2.0  25824 21108 tty7     RLs+ 16:33
> 0:17 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 -auth
> /var/run/xauth/A:0-08MGCv carramba  5392  0.0  0.0   2148   584 pts/3
>    R+   16:49   0:00 grep X [carramba@~]$
> [carramba@~]$ cat /proc/5051/cmdline
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X-nolistentcp:0vt7-auth/var/run/xauth/A:0-08MGCv[carra
>mba@~]$
>
> The only missing thing is the dpi argument ...

If memory servers me correctly that file is obsolete and never gets 
accessed try changing the value in the following file.

grep -i serverargs /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc
ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp
#ServerArgsRemote=


> Best regards,
> Robert

Stephen
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