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xserver-xorg-video-intel package

  1. Bug #107320
  2. Comment #38

Comment 38 for bug 107320

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puccha (yuri-schaeffer) wrote : Re: Large font in the GDM login text field after installing xserver-xorg-video-intel

@mets.tes.chaussettes, thank you.

> add
> Option "DDC" "no"
> in xorg.conf

This worked for me. More specificly (I had to do some trail and error) add this line to your monitor section:

Section "Monitor"
       ... #whatevert was in already.
        Option "DDC" "no"
EndSection

I had more monitor sections so make sure you pick the right one (or maybe all?).
I now found out that this is caused because my monitor reports a wrong physical size:
about 300mm width and just 20mm heigth.
This gives me an insane vertical resolution of 980 DPI! and thus to compensate gnome uses HUGE fonts.

The command used to find this info was 'xdpyinfo'.