Bug 840271

Summary: wrong dimension and dpi
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jean-Jacques Sarton <jj.sarton>
Component: xorg-x11Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: daniel.fisica, jj.sarton, mgoldman
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Description Jean-Jacques Sarton 2012-07-15 09:04:24 UTC
Description of problem:
The xorg server with the nouveau driver don't report correctly the display size and the calculated DPI

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.11.4-3.fc16.i686
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-0.0.16-27.20110720gitb806e3f.fc16.i686


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. use a system with a display with a DPI other as 96 dpi
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Actual results:
Within Xorg.0.log you will see that the monitor width and height in cm is recognized and that a dpi is calculated:
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[ 12694.936] (--) NOUVEAU(0): Chipset: "NVIDIA NV49"
...
[ 12695.025] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Max Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 37  vert.: 23
...
[ 12695.025] (II) NOUVEAU(0): clock: 161.6 MHz   Image Size:  367 x 230 mm
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[ 12695.027] (**) NOUVEAU(0): Display dimensions: (370, 230) mm
[ 12695.027] (**) NOUVEAU(0): DPI set to (131, 132)
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Expected results:

xrandr report correct values but xdpyinfo which call XDisplayWidthMM() and
XDisplayHeightMM() report values based on 96 dpi.
If the xorg.conf file contain the option "DisplaySize 372 231" the values reported by xdpyinfo are correct.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Marek Goldmann 2012-07-16 07:21:39 UTC
Reassigning from me, since I'm not the component owner for this.

Comment 2 Daniel Maia 2012-10-06 13:31:35 UTC
I also have the same problem with the Dell Precision M4600 laptop and Nvidia Quadro card. xdpyinfo gives the wrong screen dimensions and dpi while xrandr gets it right.

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