Font Scaling Question

[David A. Bandel]

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On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 19:49:43 +0000
"Robert E. Raymond" <rraymond at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have 2 computers, both Athlon XP, both Radeon, both 17" Trinitron 
> monitors (Sony G200 and Dell D1025TM), with identical X Configs except
> 
> that one is set for a higher refresh rate, sync, etc.- the main
> computer is Radeon 8500 with 1600x1200 at 75hz, the 2nd is Radeon LE with
> 
> 1600x1200 at 60hz.

So, these two systems are _not_ identical.

> 
> And I have virtually identical Gentoo installs on both- the 2nd was
> set up yesterday by copying the contents of the 1st hard disk to it
> via NFS.
> 
> Yet fonts in these basically identical setups are totally different 
> size-wise.
> 
> The main system has 10-pt. defaults, anti-aliasing enabled.  So those 
> settings got copied over as well, but on the 2nd system 10-pt. is
> almost double the size that it is on the 1st system.

Sounds like one is using 75dpi and the other 100dpi.

> 
> Attached is the XF86Config from machine 2.  Any ideas on what I might 
> try to get the 2nd machine displaying fonts correctly?
> 

I'd start by reversing the order of the 75 and 100 dpi font entries.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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