B. Stia wrote:
I have a 21" tft lcd that runs 1600x1200 and kinfocenter says the dpi is 75x75. And the physical dimensions are 542x406 mm's, (that doesn't seem right?)
Are you running 8.2 or something older? 542x406 does not compute for any 21" display I can imagine.
Your page shows my dpi should be 96. (and yes the measure is 1") What is correct?
You don't say which page. http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/dpi.html shows that Kinfocenter seems to be lying. http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/dpi-screen-window.html reports what xft/fontconfig tells it from (document.getElementById("inches").offsetWidth) (if using an XFT build of Mozilla and JS is enabled), unless you have used Mozilla pref browser.display.screen_resolution to override it.
There also doesn't seem to be a way in SAX to change the dpi, only refresh rates and resolution.
I so rarely use SAX for anything, I can't begin to guess what it should or should not be able to do. I hand tune /etc/X11/xorg.conf and if necessary /etc/X11/Xresources to achieve desired DPI results. Normally I set to a multiple of 12, which seems to minimize anomolies in font size renderings when web pages size text in pt. One pt is 1/72". A Linux desktop won't necessarily have a single DPI. Kinfocenter gets its info from xdpyinfo, which reports what xfs believes the DPI to be. XFT versions of Mozilla will report the DPI that xft/fontconfig believe it to be. Without an entry 'DisplaySize' in 'Section "Monitor"' I find typically these will not match. Running any recent SuSE you can typically force the two to match whatever DPI you wish to have, accurate or not, by creating a DisplaySize entry in xorg.conf or XF86Config or XF86Config-4 as applicable to your system. If you find this fails to create a match, add or uncomment an entry "Xft.dpi: 96" (or whatever DPI you desire) in Xresources. You can pick a DisplaySize/DPI combination from http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/Cfg/displaySize if you wish. If this too fails, you're most likely starting X with a '-dpi 75' parameter via some script or config file somewhere in the /etc tree. -- "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." Philippians 4:13 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/