I've been having a problem with my graphics card and SLED 10. The fonts are so big they take up a quarter of the screen, so the system is basically unusable. Interestingly the problem can be excaserbated on other distributions by using XGL, but even if I turn off XGL in SLED I still get this problem. I've done a search on the web and the only other person I can find with this problem was using the proprietary nvidia driver and a GeForce 5200... but this was in 2004. Is this a weird problem with my GPU? Any idea how I can fix this? -- Andrew Betts Jasp
I've been having a problem with my graphics card and SLED 10. The fonts are so big they take up a quarter of the screen, so the system is basically unusable.
Interestingly the problem can be excaserbated on other distributions by using XGL, but even if I turn off XGL in SLED I still get this problem.
I've done a search on the web and the only other person I can find with this problem was using the proprietary nvidia driver and a GeForce 5200... but this was in 2004.
Is this a weird problem with my GPU? Any idea how I can fix this?
Try starting the X server with -dpi 96? Jan Engelhardt --
On Aug 28, 06 14:13:19 +0100, Andrew Betts wrote:
I've been having a problem with my graphics card and SLED 10. The fonts are so big they take up a quarter of the screen, so the system is basically unusable.
Probably your DPI settings are bogous. Check /etc/X11/xorg.conf, the Monitor section: DisplaySize 335 270 (of course your numbers may vary - these are millimeters). If there's something like DisplaySize 30 20, then of couse something has failed horribly.
Is this a weird problem with my GPU? Any idea how I can fix this?
Probably not (answer two your first question).
CU
Matthias
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