[mythtv-users] OT - aspect ratio and non-square pixel display

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue May 21 15:08:35 UTC 2013


On 05/21/2013 10:55 AM, Jeremy Jones wrote:
>
> I tried adding the lines above to xorg.conf and it did not help. 
>  After some googling and some searching of the files in my system 
> (reading startup scripts, etc) I think that xrandr may be the culprit. 
>  It seems to be forcing square DPI.  I found a setting  using xrandr 
> from terminal that will change this and all works well until reboot. 
>  Adding the command to a script and running it at logon, does not seem 
> to work however.  I think it has to do with the timing of the scripts 
> that are running.
>
> Since I have a fix that works for the current session, and since 
> reboots are very infrequent (mythfrontend only box), I just added the 
> xrandr command to the mythfrontend startup script. Then when there is 
> a reboot and my wife/kids press the button on the remote to start 
> mythfronted, the xrandr command runs first.
>
> I know this is an ugly solution, but it works for me and this TV will 
> probably not last that much longer anyway.  Thanks to those that helped.

I still think you should check your X start scripts and I'll bet one or 
more of them has a hard-coded -dpi 100 on it.  It's very common for 
distros to add that (brokenness).

Mike


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