Re: Bug#510123: installation-reports: default font size is too big on ASUS Eee PC 904HD

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

reassign 510123 xserver-xorg-core
thanks

On Monday 29 December 2008, Luca Capello wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> 1) default font size problem
>    The font size is too big: I wanted to include a screenshot (44kb) ,
>    but it seems the first report I sent two days ago was not accepted
>    by the BTS, thus I am trying without screenshot ;-)
>
>    Since we (the Debian FreeSmartphone.Org Team) experienced a similar
>    problem on the Openmoko Neo FreeRunner (bug #500626 [2]), I firstly
>    thought about a DPI problem: indeed, on the 904HD xdpyinfo shows
>    that we have 133x135 DPI, while on the 1000H [3] we have 96x96.
>
>    There are two quick workarounds (both successfully tested):
>    a. startx/xinit users should append "-dpi 96" to the X call in
>       /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
>    b. GDM users, instead, should redefine in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf the
>       standard server GDM launches, adding something like
>
>         [server-Standard]
>         name=Standard server
>         command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -audit 0 -dpi 96
>         flexible=true
>         #priority=0

I have set something similar for my laptops in KDE:
$ grep 96 /etc/kde3/kdm/*
/etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc:ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp -dpi 96

As this is really as X.Org problem I'm reassigning it to that team.

Cheers,
FJP