Fedora 12 Graphics Issues: Cancel F13 and concentrate on fixing F12 ?

[Dave Airlie]

On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 13:17 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > Don't use radeonhd, the Fedora X team don't support it and never have.
> >
> > I'm thinking it should reallyt be removed from the distro at this point
> > as it makes things worse rather than better. remove your xorg.conf
> > and turn modesetting on and if its still horrible, then we can talk.
> 
> Well, a couple of Fedoras back, X didn't work except with radeonhd, 
> but now radeon appears to support this one as well; I switched to it, 
> and the CPU issue is gone even with KMS.  Now fonts (esp small ones) 
> look very smudgy though.  But I suppose there are already bug(s) open 
> on this.

I'm guessing with radeonhd you did something to increase or decrease
your font size in some dialog box, they had different ideas on DPI to
the rest of the world. Try with a test user, though it might just be DPI
changes.

Dave.

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