[mythtv] Ticket #667: Fix OSD font width and height for non-4:3display, letterbox modes

[Martin Long]

I'm having exactly the same problem - since I did a dist-upgrade of Debian.
Stupidly I did a svn update at the same time, so I don't know which caused
the issue. I've got my dpi set to 100 x 100, and this is reported by
dpyinfo. I've reinstalled the nvidia driver, checked my xorg.conf against
older backups I've had. I've reinstalled various font packages: freetype,
x-ttcidfont-conf, defoma.

Again, it's the same - text looks fine on 4:3 programs, whether zoomed or
displayed in a 'pillarbox'?. When a 16:9 program comes on, the text goes
wrong. The characters seem to be placed correctly, but overlap because they
are stretched sideways (like they've been 16:9erized). I've looked at the
code, but can't see why this would happen. There seem to be a lot of aspect
variables. 

I'm completely stuck. It looks like very few people (2?) have actually seen
this. It baffles me.

Hope someone is able to help

Martin

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-dev-bounces at mythtv.org]
On Behalf Of Simon Kenyon
Sent: 22 August 2007 20:57
To: Development of mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv] Ticket #667: Fix OSD font width and height for
non-4:3display, letterbox modes

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 13:12 -0400, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> I also figured out the wacky pixel dimensions of 1920x1143, it looks
> like you actually have a 1920x1200 screen, presumably a 16:10 screen
> some application is somehow stealing a portion of that away. This
> shouldn't be a big worry though, you just have to get the display
> dimensions in millimeters correct. Run "man xorg.conf" and look for
> DisplaySize. The latest nvidia drivers ignore this, if using those
> look at their documentation for the nvidia proprietary version of
> the standard DisplaySize option.

ok, i accept that is a configuration fault.
but i'm damned if i can find out what.

i've reverted to the radeon driver (from the closed source ATI one).
i've set up DisplaySize correctly. i've checked that if i change it,
then xdpyinfo shows the modification. however, the size that xdpyinfo
and xrandr -q shows is not identical to the one i specified.
however, no matter what size i specify, it seems to make no difference
to just about anything.

what really, really confuses me is that when i set the aspect ratio of
the displayed video to 4:3, the text looks fine. and yes, this is on a
1920x1200 laptop display (16:10).
i've set the kde panel to not grab part of the display.

i will continue to work on this

regards
--
simon

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