Bug 473010
| Summary: | Inconsistent dpi detected value | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | markm <marek78uk> |
| Component: | gnome-desktop | Assignee: | Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode> |
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 12 | CC: | mcepl, rstrode |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2010-06-15 16:10:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
markm
2008-11-26 02:17:40 UTC
I have just installed Fedora 12 on three different machines, all of them have correctly set dpi to 96. Yet when I installed nvidia drivers, gdm started to show much larger text as it has detected dpi value larger than 96... what is the reason for that? This message is a reminder that Fedora 11 is nearing its end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 11. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '11'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 11's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 11 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug to the applicable version. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Take a look at output of the command xdpyinfo |grep resolution That's give you dpi as reported by X server. Turns out with dual-head setups, pluggable monitors (think laptop basestations and beam projectors), LCD displays on the one hand, and almost everything on the screen being vector-based these days (most people don't use any bitmap fonts I think), this number lost much of its meaning. For some time already X server hardcoded 96dpi although drivers are free to override this value if they think so. Which leads to the ugly conclusion that this bug should be closed as CANTFIX because we cannot do much about nvidia binary drivers. Looking on the bright side, however, there is a bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378338 which guarantees you that whatever value you set up in gnome will be acknowledged as decisive. So, the small additional price you pay for using nvidia binary drivers is that you have to set up DPI manually and it will be honored. Closing as CANTFIX Fair enough, thanks. |