how to disable gathering Display dimensions in xorg 7.3

[Alex Deucher]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Alek Uritsky <auritsky at enqii.com> wrote:
> But the problem is that on smaller displays (PCs) the font size is normal.
>  I need to change the font size only when the box is connected to certain
>  displays, not sure how this can be done.
>

xrandr --fbmm should do the trick.

Alex

>  alek
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Adam Jackson" <ajackson at redhat.com>
>  To: "Alek Uritsky" <auritsky at enqii.com>
>  Cc: <xorg at lists.freedesktop.org>
>  Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 4:21 PM
>  Subject: Re: how to disable gathering Display dimensions in xorg 7.3
>
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>
>
>  > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 15:53 -0500, Alek Uritsky wrote:
>  >
>  >> Hello,
>  >>
>  >> I have upgraded to Fedora 8 and now xorg is automatically adjusting
>  >> fonts which results in the small fonts on my GUI program when played
>  >> on big display. I tracked this down to the xorg using build in ddc to
>  >> automatically extract display information from the display. Is it
>  >> possible to disable this activity of xorg, or what would be the
>  >> workaround to retain the normal size of fonts? (this problem does not
>  >> exist on Fedora 6 with xorg 7.1. Disabling DDC option in xorg.conf
>  >> solves the problem but I need this option to deal with different
>  >> monitors, and using Displaysize does not help)
>  >
>  > Don't attempt to disable it.  Change the size of your fonts.
>  >
>  > If you want a really big hammer to change all your fonts at once, change
>  > Xft's dpi preference.  But the font people tell me I'm evil for
>  > suggesting this.  Alternatively, force the DPI the server reports by
>  > starting it with the -dpi option.
>  >
>  > But really.  Fix your fonts.  X is telling the truth about your display
>  > size as best it can.
>  >
>  > - ajax
>  >
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