xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_2 problem

[Dominic Fandrey]

On 02/05/2010 23:56, Dominic Fandrey wrote:
> After a surprisingly smooth update Xorg-7.5 update (good job there)
> it's time for me to complain about a change in the intel driver.
> 
> The driver suddenly seems to be hard-coded to come up with 96dpi.
> This is quite ridiculous as the driver perfectly knows the correct
> display size:
> 	LVDS connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 190mm
> 1440px / 304mm * 25.4(mm/") ~= 120dpi

This is just wicked, xdpyinfo says:
  dimensions:    1440x900 pixels (381x238 millimeters)
  resolution:    96x96 dots per inch

xrandr says:
LVDS connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 304mm x 190mm

Of course xrandr is right, that's the values supplied by the screen.

I suspect xdpyinfo just takes the pixel dimensions and resolutions
and calculates the screen dimensions:
25.4 * 1440 / 96 = 381

Or the intel driver does it. But why should xrandr show the correct
values?

After running "xrandr --dpi 120" xdpyinfo shows the correct values.

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