First of all - hello and sorry for my english.

I have Kubuntu Intrepid running on Toshiba Satellite A200 (i965GM) and Sony LCD TV. For some strange reason Vista cannot set 1280*768 on VGA-out, but I really know, that Linux does. I do it before with Gnome and Grandr.

I have connected cables and turn notebook on. After booting I have seen the screen with very small text, about few pixels in height, same on nb screen and on TV. System config tool was useless - I can't read anything. This was very disappointing.

I can suppose, that KDE detected new screen with smaller size or dpi and shrink all elements. But this is wrong - text must be readable anytime.

(going back to Gnome).

The problem is not very clear, what KDE version were you using?

einar wrote:The problem is not very clear, what KDE version were you using?

KDE 4.1.4, Kubuntu 8.10 with all updates.

I tried two KDE4 distros - openSUSE 11.1 and Kubuntu. All of them have another "feature", related DPI (AFAIK). Here the steps (tested right now on VMWare Player, KUbuntu 8.10, KDE 4.1.4):
- open System Settings, go to Appearance, Fonts and set "Force fonts DPI" to it's default value - "Disabled", press "Apply"
- go back to System Settings main screen, than "Display", sugnifically change screen size (for example, from 1400*900 to 800*600), press "Apply"
- close System Settings and open it again
- here we are, new screen size and new font size.

I don't know, why two mainstream distos don't set DPI to some fixed value. Is there some KDE recommendations?

A lot of these kinds of bugs were fixed in KDE 4.2 due to the introduction of a new video display detection architecture (Kephal). While that was mainly aimed at multi-monitor setups, I think that it may affect also your case.

einar wrote:A lot of these kinds of bugs were fixed in KDE 4.2 due to the introduction of a new video display detection architecture (Kephal). While that was mainly aimed at multi-monitor setups, I think that it may affect also your case.

This is good news.
Thanks, einar!

I guess the same problem is happening here ... at Gnome, everything looks good, but at KDE most of fonts(letters) are small.
I installed Fedora 10 x86, and at the download site http://www.kde.org/info/4.2.0.php there is no download option to Fedora.
Can someone help me !? Is there a command to view what KDE version mine is !?

Any KDE application can tell you what version of KDE you have. This command will ask Konqueror for its version, and the version of KDE it uses.

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konqueror --version

I entered the command and the exit is:

Qt: 4.4.3
KDE: 4.1.4 (KDE 4.1.4)
Konqueror: 4.1.4 (KDE 4.1.4)

I would like to install KDE 4.2 and hope it will solve my problem, but i don't know how to install.

Sorry .. i didn't find any similar posts

bcooksley wrote:Any KDE application can tell you what version of KDE you have. This command will ask Konqueror for its version, and the version of KDE it uses.

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konqueror --version

If you are using Intrepid you can install KDE 4.2 from a repository. Have a look at kubuntu.org for details.

I am using Fedora 10. As a novice at Linux world, I have no clearly hint on how to build it. I've tried something but so many error I got. Let's see if someone else had/have the same problem as I do.

I do not know if Fedora have a KDE 4.2 repository available. You could probably find this information from searches on their website / forums.

According to what I read around, they'll try to push it as update,right now there are unofficial repositories around (but I don't have an URL at hand).