Hello,

I am running Mandrake 9.1, XFree86 4.3.0, KDE 3.1.0, NVIDIA's drivers, set to 1280x1024, Dell P991 monitor (365mm x 375mm visible screen)

In general, I am very happy with it, but I am still having font-related problems eg scrolling text in mozilla1.3 makes the characters blurry until I click on a bit of blank desktop - then they are redrawn clearly.

Google and postings suggest that this might be due to my DPI setting.

xdpyinfo | grep dots
gives me
resolution: 87x96 dots per inch

I think this is bad because the numbers should be the same (eg 96x96?). The trouble is that I do not know how to go about changing this.

What do I have to do so

xdpyinfo | grep dots
gives me
resolution: 96x96 dots per inch

Thanks.

hi

searched in google and found this

http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/mdoc/user/xfdrake.html

hope that helps

The way Im doing it in mandrake 9.0 is:
alias x="startx -- -dpi 120"
in my .bashrc.

You could also edit the startx script, it passes args directly to X.

I looked at the startx script but it is way beyond my understanding at the moment!

So I tried

$ startx -- -dpi 96

which did set the resolution to 96x96 dots per inch, which was what I was trying to do, but this did not solve the problem of scrolling text in mozilla. So I suppose I'll just have to live with it for now.

Thanks for your help.