Default to 96dpi for the no config file case

[Huw D M Davies]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 01:59:02PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2004 11:11:32 +0200, Rein Klazes wrote:
> > Why do you mean (wrong) ? Do you not get the dpi values used by X? Or is
> > it that is uses the X values but those are wrong?
> 
> Well, I talked a bit with Huw about this so apologies to him if I mangled
> what he said, but ... it seems that the functions we use to get the size
> of the screen don't always return correct values. I don't know why.
>  
> > Here X gets it from the monitor at start-up (via the logic of the video
> > card). I did not realize that my situation is not normal.
> 
> If you mean via DDC then I guess this should work in most places, but for
> whatever reason it does not work here :( In particular, xdpyinfo says:
> 
> screen #0:
>   dimensions:    1024x768 pixels (321x241 millimeters)
>   resolution:    81x81 dots per inch
> 
> So it appears to know the screen size (I measured with a ruler and
> 321x241 is right), but it gets the DPI too small anyway. At 81 dpi the
> text is hardly readable.

Well actually 1024 pixels in 321mm is about 81dpi, so the XServer is
doing the sums correctly.  I guess what we need to know is what
resolution Windows returns on this same machine.

Huw.
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Huw Davies
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