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- To: submit@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Driver fails to honour 'DisplaySize' (and breaks Dpi)
- From: James Spencer <jamessp@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:33 -0400
- Message-id: <200709190000.34001.jamessp@gmail.com>
Package: package xserver-xorg-video-ati
Version: 1:6.7.192-3
Severity: normal
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The 1:6.7.192-3 and 1:6.7.192-4 ATI display driver fails to
honour 'DisplaySize' in my xorg.conf, leading to a bad DPI setting.
The monitor section of my xorg.conf looks like this:
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-76
VertRefresh 43-85
DisplaySize 328 246
#Apparently depreciated, but does the trick...
Option "PreferredMode" "1152x864"
#Default mode "1152x864": 108.0 MHz, 67.5 kHz, 75.0 Hz
Modeline "1152x864" 108.00 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync
+vsync
#Default mode "1024x768": 94.5 MHz, 68.7 kHz, 85.0 Hz
Modeline "1024x768" 94.50 1024 1072 1168 1376 768 769 772 808 +hsync
+vsync
#Default mode "800x600": 56.3 MHz, 53.7 kHz, 85.1 Hz
Modeline "800x600" 56.30 800 832 896 1048 600 601 604 631 +hsync +vsync
#Default mode "640x480": 36.0 MHz, 43.3 kHz, 85.0 Hz
Modeline "640x480" 36.00 640 696 752 832 480 481 484 509 -hsync -vsync
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My Xorg.0.log says:
(II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 using initial mode 1152x864
after xf86InitialConfiguration
(**) RADEON(0): Display dimensions: (328, 246) mm
(**) RADEON(0): DPI set to (148, 123)(II) RADEON(0): Output VGA-0 using
initial mode 1152x864
after xf86InitialConfiguration
(**) RADEON(0): Display dimensions: (328, 246) mm
(**) RADEON(0): DPI set to (148, 123)
You can clearly see it's not honouring the display size, and subsequently
giving me wacky DPI settings.
My current solution is to run:
xrandr --fbmm 328x246
That both corrects he display size, and fixes the dpi for subsequent
applications. I know KDE allows the user to force the dpi to 96 or 120, but I
prefer to use my 'proper / literal' dpi of 89 at 1152x864.
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-k7
Debian Release: lenny/sid
500 unstable www.debian-multimedia.org
500 unstable ftp.de.debian.org
500 testing-proposed-updates ftp.de.debian.org
500 testing ftp.de.debian.org
1 experimental ftp.de.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
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libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) | 2.6.1-5
xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.1.1-11) | 2:1.4-2
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