high resolutionn/tiny fonts (was: Why Does 14.04 Hate AMD?)

[Bill Vance]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Felix Miata wrote:

> Bill Vance composed on 2014-11-07 01:28 (UTC-0800):
>
>> I've got an AMD Sempron 2800+ motherboard, and I'm using the
>> built in video.  14.04 Insists on using a screen resolution
>
> My Sempron 2800+ motherboard does not have onboard video. Presumably, yours
> has some sort of NVidia? Which (lspci | grep VGA output)?
>
>> that requires an electron microscope to read the text.
>
> Exactly what resolution is it using? With what brand/model/size display? What
> does
> http://web.archive.org/web/20140806165951/http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/dpi-screen-window.html
> or http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/dpi-screen-window.html report for DPI and
> resolution? What is the output from 'xrdb -query | grep dpi', if any? If
> Xft.dpi is set to 96, you need to make it go away, either null, or set to a
> value that makes your fonts nice size.
>
>> Unfortunately, _NOTHING_ in system settings works.  Attempts
>> to change the resolution just results in a permanent blank
>> screen, even after reboot.
>
> Which display driver is being used? NVidia proprietary? Nouveau? Other?
>
> 14.04 uses KDE 4.13.3, which uses KScreen instead of KRandr for manipulating
> video settings. KScreen ignores any attempts to obey any /etc/X11/xorg.conf*
> settings unless you disable it. I disable it thus via kdedrc:
>
> 	[Module-kscreen]
> 	autoload=false
>
> Once you can get xorg.conf to be obeyed you can not only use it to set
> whatever resolution you want, it can also force DPI to a value matching your
> screen (via DisplaySize[1]), or higher, which will enlarge everything,
> including fonts.
>
> [1]
> http://web.archive.org/web/20140819190325/http://fm.no-ip.com/Share/DisplaySize
> or http://fm.no-ip.com/Share/DisplaySize
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Thanks for the help, Felix.  I'll save your post for the next
time I try to install 14.04.  At the moment, I've got 12.04
installed, so trying some of the above won't provide anything
useful.

The rest of your questions sound interesting, but I have no
idea how/where to find the info.  :-(

Bill