Giant Text With Intel Driver

[NTICompass]

After installing Kubuntu Gutsy, upon boot, the text on the login screen is huge. Upon logging in, all the text is huge, the icons, menus, everything. The only way to fix it is when I am at the login screen, push Ctrl-Alt-F1 to login at a command line, and then recreate the xorg.conf file. After re-creating the xorg.conf, if I type startx, the fonts will be normal size, but when I reboot, the text will go back to being giant. How do I fix this? I have an Intel GMA 950 (Intel 945 chipset), and I am using the intel driver.

[NTICompass]

Re: Giant Text With Intel Driver

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[NTICompass]

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[denver38]

Re: Giant Text With Intel Driver

I have the same problem
I assume that you have to modify /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc?

[denver38]

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[Cauda_Draconis]

Re: Giant Text With Intel Driver

I have the same problem.
I've already tried fixing the kdmrc file, and I set the DisplaySize option in xorg.conf (though that didn't do anything), and I managed to get to the dpi setting in the fonts section of Kcontrol and set it to 96. My title bar and panel and menu and desktop icon fonts are still huge.

[nilsA]

Re: Giant Text With Intel Driver

Try this:

In the /etc/kde3/kdm file find:

ServerCmd=usr/bin/X -br

add the dpi size, so it looks something like this:

ServerCmd=usr/bin/X -br

You should probably also do the same with the line:

ServerArgsLocal= -dpi72 -nolisten tcp

size 72 may not be what you need - some use 100; just experiment.

[Cauda_Draconis]

Re: Giant Text With Intel Driver

I tried that and it didn't work. It's mainly the title bar and menu fonts that are really huge, and it screwed up after I installed Compiz, though when I use compiz, the title bar fonts are fine.

[Guest]

Re: Giant Text With Intel Driver

Had same problem and saved it by installing 915resolution package. Before trying this I also changed the display driver settings in xorg.conf from "intel" to "i810".
In the end I found out that a normal logout doesn't reload the changes made, which finally showed up only after an Ctrl+Alt+Backspace at KDM login prompt. So I'm not really sure which setting actually helped. The important is that it works