[mythtv-users] Funny font sizes @ PAL TV resolution
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Mon Jan 16 16:07:18 UTC 2006
Torsten Crass wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I wonder if someone else has observed the following phenomenon: When
> running mythfrontend at, say, 600x800 resolution, while my box is
> connected to either a monitor or a PAL TV, everything looks fine, but
> when switching to the native PAL resolution of 720x576, some of the
> fonts used by mythfrontend shrink to an almost unreadable size (at least
> if you sit on the sofa in normal distance from the TV). Affected are,
> for instanc, the labels of the mythfrontend menu items and --
> particularly annoying -- the EPG entries.
>
> I'm using an EPIA M10k board and x.org 6.9.0 -- does anyone have some
> experience (and maybe a functioning xorg.conf...) in how to overcome
> this problem?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions --
>
Are you setting the DisplaySize appropriately:
# For 800x600 at 100dpi (4:3)
# DisplaySize 203 153
# For 720x576 at 100dpi (4:3)
# DisplaySize 182 146
Do you have the font your theme is designed to use installed?
Mike
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