Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #575496
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 575496

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In , Glen Ditchfield (gjditchfield) wrote :

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This bug goes back to at least October 2007. For history and more log files, and a reference to a possible patch, see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/575496

The Radeon driver distributed with Ubuntu 10.04 and earlier distributions does not correctly detect monitor sizes. On Dell Latitude D600s with 14 inch 1400x1050 LCD displays, it incorrectly calculates a panel size of 370x277 mm and a resolution of 96 dpi, instead of the correct 124 dpi. The KDE desktop is misled by this when converting point sizes to pixels, and displays everything in unpleasantly small characters.