Documentation?

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Thu Apr 9 07:48:27 PDT 2009


On 04/09/2009 10:37 AM, Alan Cox wrote:

> In the perfect world the monitor would report the DPI reliably to the
> Xserver which would adopt it and everything would just work.
> Unfortunately monitors report rather varied things, the dominant OS
> product appears to ignore the monitor value entirely (so the monitor
> doesn't get corrected) and everyone forces an OS dependant DPI in their
> desktop ignoring all the monitor info.

All we want is a community call to gather HAL .fdi info for all common display 
devices...

behdad



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