HUGE Logon Font

[Tcl70]

Hello i have HUGE Logon font and i cant find any instruction that will fix this ,
i did edit human.xml in ubuntu i did get the normal size username when i type it but not the indefication name of the window then its says above the Box username/pass it's not possible to read cuz it extreme small but in the box text is ok then and the buttons like session are whit HUGE text to and it hard to select and i still dont know how to fix that :-/

[Laurent Bigonville (bigon)]

could you attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log

looks related to bug #107320

[Tcl70 (tcl-list)]

here it is :-)

[Laurent Bigonville (bigon)]

Sounds like duplicate of bug #107320

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Was duped to 151311, but the patch to fix that one doesn't fix this one. However, we probably just need a quirk added with that patch.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Wow, your monitor reports itself as having a size of 1cm x 1cm.

(II) RADEON(0): Max H-Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 1 vert.: 1

Unfortunately we don't yet have a quirk for this case. Maybe this bug should go upstream?

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

This is a bug being forwarded from Ubuntu:

Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/120480
Xorg.0.log: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8095721/Xorg.0.log

...
(II) RADEON(0): EDID data from the display on port 1 ----------------------
(II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer: @HA Model: 101 Serial#: 16843009
(II) RADEON(0): Year: 1991 Week: 1
(II) RADEON(0): EDID Version: 1.1
(II) RADEON(0): Analog Display Input, Input Voltage Level: 0.700/0.300 V
(II) RADEON(0): Sync:Serration on. V.Sync Pulse req. if CompSync or SyncOnGreen
(II) RADEON(0): Max H-Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 1 vert.: 1
(II) RADEON(0): Gamma: 1.01
(II) RADEON(0): No DPMS capabilities specified; Monochorome/GrayScale Display
(II) RADEON(0): GTF timings supported
(II) RADEON(0): redX: 0.004 redY: 0.004 greenX: 0.004 greenY: 0.005
(II) RADEON(0): blueX: 0.004 blueY: 0.004 whiteX: 0.004 whiteY: 0.005
(II) RADEON(0): Supported VESA Video Modes:
(II) RADEON(0): 800x600@60Hz
(II) RADEON(0): 1280x1024@75Hz
(II) RADEON(0): Manufacturer's mask: 1
(II) RADEON(0): Number of EDID sections to follow: 1
(II) RADEON(0): EDID (in hex):
(II) RADEON(0): 00ffffffffffff000101010101010101
(II) RADEON(0): 01010101010101010101010101010101
(II) RADEON(0): 01010101010101010101010101010101
(II) RADEON(0): 01010101010101010101010101010101
(II) RADEON(0): 01010101010101010101010101010101
(II) RADEON(0): 01010101010101010101010101010101
(II) RADEON(0): 01010101010101010101010101010101
(II) RADEON(0): 01010101010101010101010101010101
...
(--) RADEON(0): Display dimensions: (10, 10) mm
(--) RADEON(0): DPI set to (2600, 1950)
...

Am I correct in reading that it's reporting its physical dimensions to be 1cm x 1cm? What combination of quirks is required to get this working correctly?

xserver ends up picking 1024x768 and messing up the DPI.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi, I've forwarded your bug upstream to this bug report:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15399

Could you please subscribe to this bug report, so that if upstream has additional questions about your monitor or need you to test things, you can answer directly? Thanks ahead of time.

[Mark (mark-markcloyd)]

If you are having issues with stupid large fonts on your login screen, I recently found this on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=786963.

I tried it and it worked beautifully! Life is good!

In your /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file you will see a section like the following:

[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/bin/X -br -audit 0

Add a dpi to it... the example was 96 and like I said, it worked great. That was the last great Ubuntu mystery for me, I am off to learning more and getting away from Winders.

[server-Standard]
name=Standard server
command=/usr/bin/X -br -audit 0 -dpi 96

Hope this helps someone.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've written a document for troubleshooting this type of issue:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/HugeFonts

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

If you look at the EDID, it is totally bogus. It decodes to 1x1 by coincidence:

(II) RADEON(0): EDID (in hex):
(II) RADEON(0): 00ffffffffffff000101010101010101
(II) RADEON(0): 01010101010101010101010101010101
(II) RADEON(0): 01010101010101010101010101010101
(II) RADEON(0): 01010101010101010101010101010101
(II) RADEON(0): 01010101010101010101010101010101
(II) RADEON(0): 01010101010101010101010101010101
(II) RADEON(0): 01010101010101010101010101010101
(II) RADEON(0): 01010101010101010101010101010101

This should normally have been caught by a checksum, at least nowadays.

Tcl70, can you please try a recent version of Ubuntu?

[JohnMitchell (johnlmitchell)]

Tcl70, my Samsung LNA650 HDTV also shows huge fonts, for some applications but not others. This TV also reports a ridiculous size. The fix is to tell X to ignore the bogus EDID from the television.

I found this to work, at least with my nvidia graphics card:

Section "Monitor"
       Identifier "Samsung" # LNA650

# from Samsung manual, for 1920x1080p:
# HorizSync 67.500
# VertRefresh 60.000
# http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Specifying_DPI_for_NVIDIA_Cards
        Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
        Option "DPI" "100 x 100"
EndSection

[JohnMitchell (johnlmitchell)]

[mods: please zap my comment #11]

Tcl70, my Samsung LNA650 HDTV also shows huge fonts, for some applications but not others. This TV also reports a ridiculous size. The fix is to tell X to ignore the bogus EDID from the television.

I found this to work, at least with my nvidia graphics card. Edit the X configuration with "gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf", then restart to test:

Section "Monitor"
       Identifier "Samsung" # LNA650

# from Samsung manual, for 1920x1080p:
# HorizSync 67.500
# VertRefresh 60.000
# http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Specifying_DPI_for_NVIDIA_Cards
        Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
        Option "DPI" "100 x 100"
EndSection

Change the "Samsung" appropriately.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

[This is an automatic notification.]

Hi Tcl70,

This bug was reported against an earlier version of Ubuntu, can you
test if it still occurs on Lucid?

Please note we also provide technical support for older versions of
Ubuntu, but not in the bug tracker. Instead, to raise the issue through
normal support channels, please see:

    http://www.ubuntu.com/support

If you are the original reporter and can still reproduce the issue on
Lucid, please run the following command to refresh the report:

  apport-collect 120480

If you are not the original reporter, please file a new bug report, so
we can work with you as the original reporter instead (you can reference
bug 120480 in your report if you think it may be related):

  ubuntu-bug xorg

If by chance you can no longer reproduce the issue on Lucid or if you
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or 'Invalid' as appropriate, at the following URL:

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[Ajax (ajax)]

Broken monitor.

[Tim Kornhammar (tim-kornhammar)]

I can confirm it on a Sony Bravia KDL-40W4000, a 40" TV that is reported as a 70". The same goes for my pioneer receiver which forwards a 70" screen.

$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep size
[ 20.072] (II) intel(0): #0: hsize: 1280 vsize 1024 refresh: 60 vid: 32897
[ 20.092] (II) intel(0): Using exact sizes for initial modes
[ 20.589] (II) intel(0): Setting screen physical size to 508 x 285

[Tim Kornhammar (tim-kornhammar)]

Added edid output as well.

[Tim Kornhammar (tim-kornhammar)]

I'm sorry, forgot some info..

Using 10.04 - Lucid Lynx.

$ uname -a
Linux htpc 2.6.35-020635rc4-generic #020635rc4 SMP Mon Jul 5 09:08:26 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The "regular" kernel has the same problems, has tested the latest xserver as well.

[Tormod Volden (tormodvolden)]

Tim, please file a separate bug report.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Upstream closed the bug saying that the monitor is broken (by design or otherwise), since the EDID gives bogus information.