subject ought to cover it
been googling -> so far no joy
Xorg.0.log mentions the font path being set to:
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
I'm guessing that the ":unscaled" is an attribute being applied to the
fonts in that directory. What exactly does this mean? That the fonts
are to be applied at a fixed size?

I've posted about this problem in the past in here and gotten no
response, so maybe it's unique to me, trop banal or egregiously OT.
Anyone else seen anything like this? If I pull the card and stick in
say a PCI Matrox Mystique or MilleniumII, all is good. Is there some
source I can czech out for info? Is the driver for the ATI no-good?

any SWAG's, opinions, clues, flames welcomed

prodigal1 wrote:
> subject ought to cover it

furthermore
swapped out the 8meg Rage IIc AGP with an 8meg Rage Pro PCI
redid xorgconfig

did startx as user

no joy

beautiful 32bbp colour, but the fonts in KDE and even in the terminal
windows are miniscule in size=totally unreadable

may try removing and reinstalling all X11 files

prodigal1 wrote:
> prodigal1 wrote:
>
>> subject ought to cover it
>
>
> furthermore

furthermore
swapped out RageIIc PCI with a Matrox Mystique 1064sg PCI
redid xorgconfig
did startx as user

all is good, beautiful 24bbp colour, nice anti-aliased fonts

conclusion: ATI driver in Xorg is FUBAR

prodigal1 wrote:
> prodigal1 wrote:
>
>> prodigal1 wrote:
>>
>>> subject ought to cover it
>>
>>
>>
>> furthermore
>
>
> furthermore
> swapped out RageIIc PCI with a Matrox Mystique 1064sg PCI
> redid xorgconfig
> did startx as user
>
> all is good, beautiful 24bbp colour, nice anti-aliased fonts
>
> conclusion: ATI driver in Xorg is FUBAR

Not sure if your problem is the same problem that I've had in the past,
but I've had issues with font sizes in X with an NVidia card (using the
nvidia driver - the nv driver does not seem to suffer from this
problem). After much hair pulling, one day I stumbled across the
DisplaySize setting for the Monitor section of xorg.conf. Took a bit of
trial and error to get it working correctly. Mine is set to:
DisplaySize 480 420
No, my screen is not in fact 48cm x 42cm, but this is the setting that
seems to work.

Shannon Lloyd wrote:
> one day I stumbled across the
> DisplaySize setting for the Monitor section of xorg.conf. Took a bit of
> trial and error to get it working correctly. Mine is set to:
> DisplaySize 480 420
> No, my screen is not in fact 48cm x 42cm, but this is the setting that
> seems to work.

what size monitor are you using?

prodigal1 wrote:
> Shannon Lloyd wrote:
>
>> one day I stumbled across the DisplaySize setting for the Monitor
>> section of xorg.conf. Took a bit of trial and error to get it working
>> correctly. Mine is set to:
>> DisplaySize 480 420
>> No, my screen is not in fact 48cm x 42cm, but this is the setting that
>> seems to work.
>
>
> what size monitor are you using?

19" (a pair of them). each at 1600x1200.

Shannon Lloyd wrote:
> prodigal1 wrote:
>
>> Shannon Lloyd wrote:
>>
>>> one day I stumbled across the DisplaySize setting for the Monitor
>>> section of xorg.conf. Took a bit of trial and error to get it working
>>> correctly. Mine is set to:
>>> DisplaySize 480 420
>>> No, my screen is not in fact 48cm x 42cm, but this is the setting
>>> that seems to work.
>>
>>
>>
>> what size monitor are you using?
>
>
> 19" (a pair of them). each at 1600x1200.

you can also use " startx -dpi 96 " to
enhance fonts.

or edit the "startx " script and add " -dpi 96 " as below:

' defaultserverargs="-dpi 96" '
if you use a graph. login, you have to edit xorg.conf as explained above.

cashmir

cashmir wrote:

> you can also use " startx -dpi 96 " to
> enhance fonts.
>
> or edit the "startx " script and add " -dpi 96 " as below:
>
> ' defaultserverargs="-dpi 96" '
> if you use a graph. login, you have to edit xorg.conf as explained above.
>
> cashmir

thank you very much
this worked perfectly