Re: Screen resolution

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

>> I strongly suspect that my screen resolution is lower than 
>> it should be:
>> everything appears very big.
>> Is there a way to check up the real performed resolution?
>> And a way to make it be what it should?
>> When I run 'dpkg-reconfigure -pmedium xserver-xfree86',
>> the resolution displayed is never what I put: 1024×768.
>> I have Sarge 3.1 stable.



Felix C. Stegerman wrote:

> Try
> $ xrandr


Digby Tarvin wrote:

> xdpyinfo(1) is the traditional X utility for this:



Thanks.
Both the utilities seem to agree upon a screen size 
much smaller than it actually is:
in fact, 'xrandr' produces the following output:

 SZ:    Pixels          Physical       Refresh
*0    800 x 600    ( 203mm x 152mm )  *73
 1    640 x 480    ( 203mm x 152mm )   73
Current rotation - normal
Current reflection - none
Rotations possible - normal
Reflections possible - none


, and 'xdpyinfo':

screen #0:
  dimensions:    800x600 pixels (203x152 millimeters)
  resolution:    100x100 dots per inch
  depths (7):    24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32
  root window id:    0x3a
  depth of root window:    24 planes
  number of colormaps:    minimum 1, maximum 1
  default colormap:    0x20
  default number of colormap cells:    256

, whereas the screen is actually about 305×230 millimeters.
Any idea how to adjust this?

Thanks,
Rodolfo