GDM Text Size --

Ghod ghod at erols.com
Tue Nov 16 14:20:19 UTC 2004


either kill this account from sending to the list or call him up and get 
it FIXED

Kevin Freeman wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:15 -0500, Drew, Bill wrote:
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>> One problem I am seeing is that the correct video card drivers are not
>>being used by the system.  It selects the generic vesa driver.  The
>>video card is S3Trio3D.  I try to change to that one in the pull down
>>list for system-config-display to S3 Trio3D/2X and it won't let me
>>change it.  What would I put in xorg.conf to get the correct drivers
>>used?  Could that be part of the problem with the size of the GDM text?
>>    
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>Have you tried system-config-display --reconfig ?  Execute that from
>runlevel 3 - you may want to back up /etc/X11/xorg.conf first.  If the
>S3 card is not recognized I would suggest filing an entry in bugzilla.
>You may also try manually setting the driver to S3 Virge - that may get
>you a working desktop but it may cause problems for DRI/3D applications.
>
>As another poster mentioned, you should have normal-sized fonts even
>with the VESA driver.  Double-check that the "Monitor" section
>of /etc/X11/xorg.conf has a line like:
>        DisplaySize  320        240
>Those numbers represent your monitor's viewable image area in mm, and
>320x240 is a common size for a 17-inch CRT.  I would also log an entry
>in bugzilla if the DisplaySize parameter is present and the fonts are
>still too small.
>
>Kevin Freeman
>
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