Font Scaling Question

Robert E. Raymond rraymond
Mon May 17 11:56:31 PDT 2004


David A. Bandel wrote:

> 1600x1200 at 75hz, the 2nd is Radeon LE with
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>>1600x1200 at 60hz.
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>So, these two systems are _not_ identical.
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Ok, but still close ;)

>>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.
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>>Yet fonts in these basically identical setups are totally different 
>>size-wise.
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>>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.
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>Sounds like one is using 75dpi and the other 100dpi.
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>>Attached is the XF86Config from machine 2.  Any ideas on what I might 
>>try to get the 2nd machine displaying fonts correctly?
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>I'd start by reversing the order of the 75 and 100 dpi font entries.
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Makes no difference...

Thanks tho...


Bob Raymond



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