Video drivers on a MacBook Pro 5,2

[Tom H]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Henrik Frisk <frisk.h at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> First of all I wish to thank all the people involved in the release of F13.
> I just upgraded from F11 and I really like it. The installation was
> effortless and the system works and looks great!
>
> But I have a question WRT the video ddriver. I have successfully installed
> the nvidia drivers but for some reason, the resolution (1920x1200) gives me
> a 'smaller' screen then what I have under F11 (also nvidia), i.e. I can fit
> less things. As if the resolution was lower. BTW, this was the case with the
> nouveau drivers too. The video card is a nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce
> 9600M GT] [10de:0647]

This has come up on another list:

"Xorg forces DPI 96 irrespective of the correct DPI detected
by/calculated from EDID."

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23705