[mythtv-commits] Ticket #4044: OSD fonts badly rendered on a 16:9 HDTV

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#4044: OSD fonts badly rendered on a 16:9 HDTV
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 Reporter:  anonymous  |        Owner:  ijr     
     Type:  defect     |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  minor      |    Milestone:  unknown 
Component:  mythtv     |      Version:  0.20.2  
 Severity:  high       |   Resolution:          
  Mlocked:  0          |  
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Changes (by nico at youplala.net):

  * status:  closed => reopened
  * resolution:  invalid =>


Comment:

 Hehehe.

 Friendly place, here.

 OK, I decided not to be too offended by the abuse.

 On top of the NVIDIA way of hard-coding the DPI (yes, I did read the FAQ
 on the wiki) I have added the display size stuff.

 Section "Monitor"
         Identifier      "MonitorTMDS"
         Option          "DPMS"
         Option          "UseEdidDpi"            "FALSE"
         Option          "DPI"                   "100 x 100"
         # For 1920x1080 at 100dpi  (16:9)
         DisplaySize  487 274
 EndSection

 I kick gdm in order to restart X.

 I check, same bad rendering for the OSD. No mention of DisplaySize in
 the X logs. I still get the normal NVIDIA stuff:

 (**) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (100, 100); computed from "DPI" X config
 option

 So why not remove the NVIDIA-specific stuff, and only leave the
 displaysize statement?

 Section "Monitor"
         Identifier      "MonitorTMDS"
         Option          "DPMS"
         # For 1920x1080 at 100dpi  (16:9)
         DisplaySize     487 274
 #       Option          "UseEdidDpi"            "FALSE"
 #       Option          "DPI"                   "100 x 100"
 EndSection

 I swiftly do that and restart X.

 The menus have very small fonts now. But the OSD is still badly
 rendered.

 I check the X logs and still get no mention of DisplaySize.

 But instead I get this:

 (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (46, 46); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
 option

 DisplaySize is apparently not a valid entry for the NVIDIA driver...

 But rest assured that DisplaySize was a valid entry when I was using the
 on-board Intel GPU. I had tried it a few months ago, and still it did
 not fix my OSD text rendering issues. I do read wikis and mailing list
 archives. I do use Google too.


 So it sounds like I'm not such a complete moron after all and that
 closing the ticket may have been done slightly too early.

 So, what's your take on what I still think is a bug?

 Nico

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