<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">>On 9/12/05, Barry Hee <<a href="mailto:barryhee@gmail.com">barryhee@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <br>
<font color="#660066">>> I don't need to fiddle the X configuration as Fedora Core 4 supports all <br>>> Apple monitors including the 23 "out the box". I just select it from the <br>>> System Settimgs/Display/Hardware with a resolution of 1920 x 1200. The
<br>>> desktop is fine but when I am running Myth the image is 'squished' <br>>> vertically not hortizontally. <br>>> <br>>> Barry <br></font> ><br>>FC4 may well provide a valid modeline for the monitor "out of the box"
<br>>what the symptoms you're seeing are because X-server does not know the <br>>aspect ratio of the display. i.e. it doesn't know whether the display <br>>is a 1920x1200 display with a 4:3 aspect ratio or a 16:9 aspect ratio.
<br> ><br>>Unless X is able to tell Myth / Mplayer / etc what the aspect ratio is <br>>each of these programs will fall back to some default (Myth assumes a <br>>4:3 display, whilst it appears that VLC assumes a 16:9 display).
<br> ><br>>I don't run FC so I have no idea what the default for this display is, <br>>but it definitely sounds like you've got a modeline but no info on the <br>>physical dimensions of the display. Also, check the archives for info
<br>>on how to set DISPLAYSIZE such that the X is working as 100dpi. <br> ><br>
><br>>Steve<br>
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</font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Thanks Steve, changed the DISPLAYSIZE xorg.conf value to 495 310 and all is well.<br>
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Barry<br>