Re: [rox-users] TT font weirdness (*resolved*/summary)

[joehill <jo...@sy...>]

I'll take that bad 'ol KVM off your hands...

Keith R. John Warno wrote:

>* Jim Knoble <jmk...@po...> [29/01/2003 1431EST]:
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>>Circa 2003-01-29 11:16:23 -0500 dixit Keith R. John Warno:
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>>: Hm.  In both my cases the vid board/driver is an NVidia product.  I
>>: haven't updated the driver in a while; it may be time to do so.  An
>>: interesting observation, though, is that with the Nokia monitor I get:
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>>: 	(WW) NVIDIA(0): Failure reading EDID parameters for display device 0.
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>[my gibberish]
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>>This definitely means that XFree86 is setting different physical
>>resolutions (dots-per-inch) for the two monitors.  The reason this only
>>appears to be affecting TrueType fonts is probably that ROX is the only
>>application displaying fonts using the Xrender extension; the other
>>fonts are likely to be displayed using the "traditional" method, which
>>depends on the order the fonts appear in the font path (unless you
>>explicitly supply the desired DPI resolution in the font specification,
>>e.g., '-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1'
>>for Adobe Helvetica 12pt at 100dpi).
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>>If you tell xterm to use TrueType fonts, you should see similar results:
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>>xterm -fa 'Luxi Mono' -fs 12
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>Yep, same thing with xterm.  But, finally, the cause of this madness has
>been determined and hopefully some other folks can learn something from
>this.  :)
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>The underlying problem (aside from any "true" understanding, so to
>speak, of font stuff on my part) is that this f'in Nokia 445PRO wants to
>use ALL 15 pins on the VGA cable.  Normally pin #9 is not used (or so I
>see on just about every f'in VGA cable); this 445Pro instead wants to
>use pin #9 for a 5V voltage (according to TFM).  Much to my dismay,
>this voltage is required for the DDC/EDID stuff.  And alas, I've been
>using a cable that lacks this pin #9 in combination with a KVM that
>believes #9 should not exist either.  So I've ditched the KVM and the
>cable and robbed a full 15-pin VGA cable from a coworker.  Now the Nokia
>advertises her capabilities to Mr X server and claims to like 101x101
>DPI.
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>After all has been said an done (a nice learning experience for this
>week), I've told this wonky Nvidia driver to ignore the EDID stuff (as
>was suggested much earlier) and sit happily at 75x75 DPI which is fine
>for me.  I'm assuming I can do the same w/ the Gateway (haven't tried)
>and have it sit at 75x75 DPI as well so it's *consistent* between the
>two monitors (this being the ultimate goal).
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>In my voyages I came across this do-dad:
>http://john.fremlin.de/programs/linux/read-edid/
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>which spits out some useful junk if EDID stuff is actually being
>broadcast properly.
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