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Re: KDE font size problem after nvidia driver upgrade



2005/12/17, David Bruce <dbruce@tampabay.rr.com>:
> I'm running Sid with 2.6.14.  Nvidia-glx was upgrade to 8174 in Sid recently.
> I built and installed the corresponding driver using module-assistant, and
> now all of the fonts and (I think) KDE/Qt GUI elements are about 20% larger
> than they used to be, even though the point size is still the same.  I
> thought at first I had inadvertently reduced the resolution from 1024x768 to
> 800x600, but that is not the case - I still am at 1024x768.  If I use the nv
> driver instead of the nvidia driver with no other changes to the xorg conf,
> the problem goes away.  Non-KDE apps don't seem to be affected.  I have done
> some googling and there seems to be an issue with KDE determining dpi from
> the X configuration, but I haven't been able to understand it well enough to
> get the problem fixed.  Any hints would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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Just an idea...
dpi infos are stored in X server log file, maybe the new version of
driver uses a text format that KDE is not able to understand.

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