Here is the monitor I'm using: Specifications: Dell 1702FP Flat Panel Color Monitor User's Guide General http://supportapj.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/1702fp/en/specs.htm#genera... Flat Panel http://supportapj.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/1702fp/en/specs.htm#flat_p... Resolution http://supportapj.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/1702fp/en/specs.htm#resolu... Preset Display Modes http://supportapj.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/1702fp/en/specs.htm#preset Electrical http://supportapj.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/1702fp/en/specs.htm#electr... Physical Characteristics http://supportapj.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/1702fp/en/specs.htm#physic... Environmental http://supportapj.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/1702fp/en/specs.htm#enviro... Power Management Modes http://supportapj.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/1702fp/en/specs.htm#power Pin Assignments http://supportapj.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/1702fp/en/specs.htm#pin Plug and Play Capability http://supportapj.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/1702fp/en/specs.htm#plug_a... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Model number 1702FP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flat Panel Screen dimensions Screen type Active matrix - TFT LCD Screen dimensions 17 inches (17-inch viewable image size) Preset display area: Horizontal 337.92 ± 3 mm (13.3 inches ± 0.12 inches) Vertical 270.34 ± 3 mm (10.6 inches ± 0.12 inches) Pixel pitch 0.264 mm Viewing angle +/- 85° (vertical) typical +/- 85° (horizontal) typical Luminance output 250 CD/m² typical, 200 CD/m² minimum Contrast ratio 500 to 1 typical, 400 to 1 minimum Faceplate coating Antiglare with hard-coating 3H Backlight CCFT (4) edgelight system ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Resolution Horizontal scan range 31 kHz to 80 kHz (automatic) Vertical scan range 56 Hz to 76 Hz (automatic) Optimal preset resolution 1280 x 1024 at 60 Hz Highest preset resolution 1280 x 1024 at 75 Hz * Highest addressable resolution 1600 x 1200 at 60 Hz (UXGA) * Addressable means the monitor will sync up to this mode. However, Dell does not guarantee the image will be sized, shaped and centered correctly. * Dell does not officially support the UXGA video mode. Video performance could be impaired in this mode. The following message will appear when in this mode "Cannot Display This Video mode". In the event the system is in UXGA mode, the user will still be able to view the screen in order to change the resolution to optimal. Dell guarantees image size and centering for all preset modes listed in the following table. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preset Display Modes *Display Mode* *Horizontal Frequency (kHz)* *Vertical Frequency (Hz)* *Pixel Clock (MHz)* *Sync Polarity (Horizontal/Vertical)* IBM®, VGA2, 720 x 400 31.469 70.087 28.3 -/+ IBM, VGA3, 640 x 480 31.469 59.940 25.2 -/- VESA®, 640 x 480 37.500 75.000 31.5 -/- VESA, 800 x 600 37.879 60.317 49.5 +/+ VESA, 800 x 600 46.875 75.000 49.5 +/+ VESA, 1024 x 768 48.363 60.004 65.0 -/- VESA, 1024 x 768 60.023 75.029 78.8 +/+ VESA, 1152 x 864 67.500 75.000 108 +/+ VESA, 1280 x 1024 64.000 60.000 135.0 +/+ VESA, 1280 x 1024 79.976 75.025 135.0 +/+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 04/25/2012 11:30 PM, Duaine Hechler wrote:
On 04/25/2012 05:27 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2012/04/25 16:30 (GMT-0500) Duaine Hechler composed:
So with that being said, how do I - easily - change the DPI ? Is it in YAST ?
There is no "easy" if you want 100% success.
The "easy" (simplest) way depends on desktop environment. In KDE, there's a "force fonts DPI" chooser in the fonts panel in system (aka personal) settings. Gnome 2 had something similar in Gnome Control Center, which I think had name changes since. Because there are gotchas, I recommend you only try this to see how you like the results of forcing DPI, and to find out what number pleases you most - after setting the display back to its native/preferred mode.
Once you know what DPI works best for you while in native mode, the overall across all apps and toolkits and user logins more thorough and effective, and definitely less than easy, method is via /etc/X11/xorg.conf*. How to do it there is not uniform across all display drivers.
The place to tweak is 'Section "Monitor"'.
If using an NVidia binary driver, you very logically place 'Option "DPI" "100 x 100"' using whatever DPI number you want, check below for general instruction where and how to place it, and restart X.
Absent NVidia binaries, it's more complicated, because it's most thoroughly done via DisplaySize. To get accurate DPI, you use the physical height and width of your display, but in your case of wanting everything bigger, you must lie about the sizes, telling X the sizes are _smaller_ than they actually are. Rather than making the necessary calculations to arrive at the required mm dimensions, you may be able to look suitable ones up in my DisplaySize cheat file[1] where I list the display dimensions that correlate to various combinations of resolution and desired target DPI, mostly multiples of 12, such as 72, 96, 108, 120, 132, 144, plus various others. The file includes an explanation why to prefer a multiple of 12.
Rather than putting all the required components into xorg.conf so that it parses correctly, it's supposed to be somewhat simpler to use the files in xorg.conf.d/, 50-device.conf, 50-monitor.conf and 50-screen.conf, with elementary content as follows:
# 50-device.conf Section "Device" Identifier "Default Device" EndSection
# 50-monitor.conf Section "Monitor" Identifier "Default Monitor" Option "DefaultModes" "on" # only sometimes necessary # DisplaySize 338 270 # 096 DPI @ 1280x1024 (typical size of 17" LCD) DisplaySize 270 216 # 120 DPI @ 1280x1024 (to make things 25% bigger) Option "PreferredMode" "1280x1024" # insurance, probably unnecessary EndSection
# 50-screen.conf Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Device "Default Device" Monitor "Default Monitor" EndSection
Those three files are installed by default in 12.1, but include nothing but comments. To use them, uncomment the required lines, add the necessary addition(s) (minimally, a DisplaySize line), and restart X. Combining the three above files into one xorg.conf file should produce the same result as the three individual files, but preserve the originals in their unused and inert state.
Well, Felix, Back to the drawing board ! ! ! !
I coded all three files just like above and rebooted each time with each of the DPI settings......
and .... guess what .... each time the monitor came back up in 1024 x 768 mode (even the display (hardware) menu confirms it)
So .... now what ? ? ? ?
14: PCI 02.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA) [Created at pci.319] Unique ID: _Znp.R9e4vZ5lsP8 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:02.0 Hardware Class: graphics card Model: "Intel 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller" Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation" Device: pci 0x2e32 "4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller" SubVendor: pci 0x1043 "ASUSTeK Computer Inc." SubDevice: pci 0x836d Revision: 0x03 Driver: "i915" Driver Modules: "drm" Memory Range: 0xfb800000-0xfbbfffff (rw,non-prefetchable) Memory Range: 0xe0000000-0xefffffff (ro,non-prefetchable) I/O Ports: 0xdc00-0xdc07 (rw) IRQ: 42 (7384 events) I/O Ports: 0x3c0-0x3df (rw) Module Alias: "pci:v00008086d00002E32sv00001043sd0000836Dbc03sc00i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: i915 is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe i915" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
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