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[harzach]

installed twice nvidia drivers, first using "jockey-gtk", second using terminal, nouveau removed and blacklisted. Both times after restart, screen resolution ok, icons ok, but fonts on applications (terminal, nautilus, firefox, etc) gigantics. No way found to solve this problem, putting font size to minimum (6), dropped from gigantic to very big. I don't know what I'm missing, any ideas?

[ottermaton]

Just a thought, but try messing about with Custom Scaling Factor under the Settings Panel -> Look -> Scale. You'll have to click the Advanced button. Don't forget to hit Apply (like I always do)

cheers
mark

[Agust]

It would be nice if someone made a how-to on how to easily install proprietary drivers.
Expamp: with Jockey....

Greetings:
Agust

[harzach]

Agust Bodhi, I found here in this forum the two ways to install the nvidia drivers I used, with same results, all correct but the damned fonts on applications and programs, even login screen.

Thanks Ottermaton, I already did it, but that only changes size on enlightenment panels. My problem is not here, enlightenment panels are ok, the wrong are the programs and applications. Only changing font size to minimum (6) under Setting > Applications > Look, the size decreased a little, but far from ok.
Any other idea?


cheers
harzach

[Agust]

Hi harzach , Apps fonts change from Appearance.



Greetings:
Agust

[harzach]

thanks August Bodhi, that's exactly the place I changed the size fonts from to minimum (6), just to get very very big fonts. There must be
something wrong somewhere, although I installed Bodhi twice, and used different ways to install the nvidia drivers, the results were the same. I've been
looking and googling but with no results, so by the moment I'm going to leave Bodhi, maybe next releases will solve the this problem of mine and then
I'll give another try

thanks and cheers
harzach

[Agust]

Sorry not having been helpful karzach .
Just one question, as root in jockey and remove Nvidia driver without leaving jockey re-activate driver , reboot system.

Greetings:
Agust

[harzach]

I have tried your suggestion, but nothing changed.

thanks again Agust

cheers
harzach

[Jeff]

harzach,

Are you familiar with Linux enough to attempt installing the nvidia driver from the vendor provided .run and see that results in a change of any sort? I'm using the one in the repo on three systems currently with zero issues, so need to track down what it is on yours.

~Jeff

[harzach]

Jeff,
I've installed the drivers downloaded from vendor as per instructions from
http://jeffhoogland....buntu-1004.html
I had problems stopping X, because using sudo stop lxdm didn't let Nvidia install, it claimed X still running, but finally I went through.
Blacklisted vga16fb, nouveau, rivafb, nvidiafb and rivatv,and same results as the jockey-gtk installation. Everything fine but the fonts on applications and programs. Putting fonts under "Look" to size 6, the fonts decreased to what normally would be approx size 36. I barely can see the whole terminal on my screen (1920x1080).
Enlightment, panels and menus, all ok. My video board is a MSI 470GTX Geoforce. I have root and home under different partitions.
I have used different distros, (actually using Pinguy), and never experienced this problem, probably is something silly, but I can't see the solution. I've installed Bodhi 4 times and the big fonts came at the hand with the nvidia drivers, never mind the system used to install it. I don't know what more can I say apart that Bodhi is really nice and I would like to use it.


cheers
harzach

[Jeff]

What nVidia driver version did you try? Was it different from the version in the repository. If you are really set on debugging could you try asking in #e on freenode IRC? There might be someone there who has had this issue before.

~Jeff

[harzach]

Jeff,

I installed the 260.19.29 driver version.
Now just to see what happens, I've installed Pclinux E17, just to test my system, well, the fonts on login screen and the fonts of the first dialog box
asking if I want to keep as default E17 or Ecomorph-17, are also outsized, but once the system starts, all is ok.

cheers
harzach

[harzach]

Font problem is solved

Quote
nvidia driver automatically set font DPI to X current resolution
the reason why the font is much larger is because the screen resolution is larger than 1024x768 (the default DPI setting is 96 dpi).
So to set the font to default at 96 dpi no matter the screen resolution you need to edit your xorg.conf file.

add this to your device setting in xorg.conf
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
....
Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
Option "DPI" "96 x 96"
Unquote

And fonts down to terms. Nice really nice

cheers
harzach

[Jeff]

Fantastic to know - thanks for your debugging harzach

~Jeff

[fore17]

Fantastic to know - thanks for your debugging harzach

~Jeff

Jeff: guess its a good one to move to quick fix/self fix.