tiny fonts after installing nvidia drivers

New user of 13.2 with limited knowledge of linux. Did install of nvidia drivers after compositor kept crashing system. After reboot the fonts were too small to read. I use the system for movies, so the monitor is a tv or projector. Spent too much time to read dozens of opinions about this problem, so I’ll record what I know so far.

$ sudo zypper install xdpyinfo
$ xdpyinfo | grep -B1 dot

Gave me a dpi of 47 x 48.

Ran the Nvidia server settings module, went to the X server Display Configuration option, clicked Save to X configuration button, clicked show preview button, and copied the resulting text. Nano wasn’t installed so used the joe editor in konsole to create the xorg.conf file.

sudo joe /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Used konsole to paste the configuration text into file. Moved down to the monitor section and edited the last two options into the text below. Changed the dpi to 96 x 96.

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "SEK LC-46G68"
    HorizSync       14.0 - 68.0
    VertRefresh     48.0 - 62.0
    Option         "DPMS"
    Option    "UseEdidDpi"  "FALSE"
    Option    "DPI"  "96 x 96"
EndSection


Rebooted and could read fonts again.

Won’t mind a review of what I might do better or differently. Thanks

That’s about right DPI is the key.

Note just one thing the xorg.conf file still works but the proper place is to use the files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d The NVIDIA setting program still puts it all in xorg.conf