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ThinkPad issue in 15.0

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thane:
I've been running TinyCorePure64 version 14.0 on a lenovo X201 ThinkPad, which seems to work fine using the thinkpad-acpi, xkeyboard-config, unifont, xf86-video-intel, and Xorg 7.7 extensions.

However when I try version 15.0 with the new versions of the same tcz's I get some weird behavior. On booting the screen blanks out while loading extensions, and when the GUI does appear the fonts and window sizes are obviously not right. Seems like something's missing or not loading like it used to. Just for fun I tried booting without xf86-video-intel and the GUI desktop was blank. No error messages that I can find or obvious missing dependencies

curaga:
Sounds like DPI defaults changed. xdpyinfo will list that, search for dots per inch. Or could also be resolution, but unlikely. Xorg.0.log may also have something.

Rich:
Hi thane
You might also want to:

--- Code: ---tc@E310:~$ cat .Xdefaults | grep "dpi:"
Xft.dpi: 96.0
tc@E310:~$
--- End code ---
and see if the TC15 result is different from TC14.

thane:
Thanks for the replies!

I compared xorg.0.log in version 14.0 to the one for 15.0. In both it looks like Xorg is switching to a default resolution and screen physical size. This is 1280 x 800 and 338 x 211 in version 14.0, 640 x 400 and 169 x 105 in version 15.0.

xdpyinfo confirms screen #0 in version 14.0 is 1280 x 800 pixels (338 x 211 mm), screen #0 in version 15 is 640 x 400 pixels (338 x 211 mm).

So maybe in both versions something is missing but the default in 14.0 is at least workable whereas 15.0 isn't?

curaga:
Fix the half resolution first. xrandr can change those at runtime, for permanent changes you'd edit xorg.conf.

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