[RESOLVED] Unable to get true 1920x1200 resolution with Fedora 8

Jim Cornette fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Wed Dec 5 22:47:02 UTC 2007


Jeremy Nix wrote:
> I finally have my old resolution back.  Here's what I did in order to 
> get it to work.
> 
> I followed directions from the following article 
> (http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10304), and found that my 
> DPI settings in xdpyinfo were sitting at 133x133.  I then found that the 
> following set my DPI back to what I was accustomed to (96).
> System -> Preferences -> Look and Feel -> Appearance -> Fonts -> Details 
> -> 96 dots per inch.
> 
> __________________________________
> Jeremy Nix

Interesting and good to know information. I tried 133 just to see what 
it would look like. It was horrible. 96 dpi is good in comparison.

Jim

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