fontsize and dpi

[Andreas Hauser]

des wrote @ Wed, 24 Aug 2005 13:36:14 +0200:
> Andreas Hauser <andy at splashground.de> writes:
> > des wrote @ Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:45:09 +0200:
> > > X will correctly determine the physical resolution on DDC-capable
> > > monitors (with a DDC-capable graphics adapter, of course).  [...]
> > That works far from always, -dpi 100 is the only way, i know, that works no
> > matter what.
> 
> Buy less crappy hardware.  If you bought a new graphics adapter or
> monitor in the past five years that doesn't support DDC, you've been
> had.

Oh, well if it was so easy to find less crappy hardware ...
DDC support is not so much the problem but it being buggy or X doing the
wrong thing with it. Notice how e.g. the Panelsize in the example posted
differs from the DDC message in the log in the same email.

See here e.g., it works with D-SUB but not DVI
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3654
It also works with the nvidia driver, unfortunatly there is none for
freebsd/amd64.

If you know of a fanless dual DVI graphics adapter that does 1600x1200 for
under 100 Euro, i would gladly buy it. Currently it's a Siemens-Fujitsu OEM
only nvidia 5200, dual DVI, fanless for 42 Euro, which at least would work
if there was a freebsd/amd64 driver from nvidia (though i'd prefer X nv).


Andy