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[Felix Miata]

Bill Vance composed on 2014-11-08 21:44 (UTC-0800):

> lspci | grep VGA

> Returned:

> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
> K8M800/K8N800/K8N800A [S3 UniChrome Pro] (rev 01)

That's one of the less popular and less well supported video devices. As a
result, it gets much less attention during development of new releases, and
so a bug could have snuck into the Xorg server or the applicable Openchrome
driver after 12.04 and was never reported, or was reported but not fixed as
of 14.04.

If you hope to upgrade to something newer than 12.04 at some point I suggest
you adopt one of three basic plans:

1-Install a well supported video card from AMD (ATI, Radeon) or NVidia so
that you don't need to depend on the Openchrome driver, or

2-Switch to a newer computer, preferably one with well supported video from
AMD, Intel or NVidia, or

3-Test the latest release as it is being developed, as far in advance of
release as you possibly can. The easiest method for most people is using
pre-release live media, testing to see how it works, and ensuring whatever
doesn't work satisfactorily gets reported on bugs.launchpad.net in time to
have a chance of getting fixed before final release. Alternatively to live
media booting are such options as installing in a VM, or creating a
multi-boot environment (more than one distro installed on the same system,
much like is done by people who need both Windows and Linux on their computers).

A subcategory of #3 would be trying 14.04, collecting and sharing enough
system data to find out whether in fact a bug exists or whether some special
configuration is required to function properly on you particular computer.

If you plan to keep trying anything newer than 12.04 with your current
hardware, you should at the very least save /var/log/Xorg.0.log so that it
can be compared with that file as created by whatever newer version(s) you
try. It is full of information that is invaluable in resolving trouble with
the X server and drivers. If you were to share the one 14.04 created, someone
might be able to spot the problem you had and tell you how to fix it.

> http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/dpi-screen-window.html

> Returned:

> ... one inch ...
> 90 DPI

Are you sure it was 90 and not 96? Any number less than 96 is very unusual.
Numbers greater than 96 are rather uncommon, as most installations force 96
unless the user has taken steps to prevent that.

> ... 25.4 mm ...

Using a ruler held up to your screen, how wide does it measure?

> ... 	UA Default
> Font Size 
...
> Width 	Height 	Width 	Height 	Width 	Height 	Width 	Height
> 16px 	1920 	1080 	1920 	1045 	703 	485 	703 	414
...

What size is your 1920x1080 screen? What make and model?

> xrdb -query | grep dpi

> Returned:  Nothing containing, "dpi".

OK

> The only thing in /var/log/Xorg.0.log that seems to fit your
> discription is:

>     CHROME(0)

That suggests 12.04 is using the optimal driver for your onboard video chip.
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