Bug#227217: mini-howto for the dpi/displaysize setting
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 20:50, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> * Michel Dänzer [Tue, Jan 13 2004, 07:28:53PM]:
>
> > > +The dot resolution setting is handled by the X server internally.
> > > +Unfortunately, there is no good way to auto-detect the monitor size
> > > +so you should configure it by hand.
> >
> > Not true, the display size is in the EDID block.
>
> And it can be extracted using ...what?
The X server video driver, for example. :)
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