On 9/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 09/14/2007 05:53 PM, Craig Huff wrote:<br>> 1) Even at 640x480 resolution, Myth setup screen fonts are waaay too<br>> itsy-bitsy, even at 4 feet viewing distance, and, yes, I have my<br><br><snip><br><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#All_my_fonts_look_like_they_are_the_wrong_sizes.2C_how_can_I_correct_this.3F">
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#All_my_fonts_look_like_they_are_the_wrong_sizes.2C_how_can_I_correct_this.3F</a><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Display_Size">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Display_Size
</a><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Specifying_DPI_for_NVIDIA_Cards">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Specifying_DPI_for_NVIDIA_Cards</a><br><br><br>> 2) The color is saturated. Red is bleeding all over. I tried
<br>> accessing the playback/live TV picture adjustments with the "F" key,<br>> but it doesn't seem to be functional.<br><br>Only works with GF5x00 and below.<br><br>> The "G" key gets me recording picture adjustments, but as expected,
<br>> they don't affect the live TV display.<br><br>LiveTV is a recording, so they will affect that. It's a per-channel<br>adjustment, though.<br><br><snip><br><br>For the color issues, find out if it's an issue with the capture card by
<br>playing back a recording (preferrably one with the default recording<br>picture control settings) on another system. If it works, reset all<br>your recording picture controls (you can use MythWeb's channel editor to
<br>"sync" them all up at once).<br><br>If it's not the capture, it could be anything from your video card to<br>the video card drivers or configuration to the S-Video cable.<br><br>Mike<br></blockquote></div>
<br>Mike,<br><br>What, no "delete all capture cards"? ;-)<br><br>Seriously, thank you for the advice. I didn't use the right search terms, <br>apparently. The dpi *was* 75x75, and I have now fixed that and verified
<br>that the change has taken effect, but the fonts were still too small. I <br>went back into mythfrontend and drilled down through the menus from<br>Utilities/Setup | Setup | Appearance and on the fifth dialog screen,
<br>captioned QT, I discovered that the font sizes I had there (perhaps I <br>had changed them in the dark ages of getting MythTV going?) were<br>*way* smaller -- 6, 8, and 12 -- than the defaults shown in the help at <br>
the bottom -- 12, 16, and 25. Things are looking much more readable <br>in the mythfrontend settings dialogs now. IIRC, there was some recent<br>talk about how MythWelcome doesn't follow those settings, which would<br>
explain why the pop-up menu in MythWelcome and the settings screens<br>are still too small font-wise. I don't recall what, if any, fix there was to <br>address these issues. How do I get them to use a larger font?<br>
<br>As far as the color problem, this is a FE-only system. The capture cards <br>are all on the BE and outputs look fine (on the 1280x1024 VGA monitor).<br>I believe that I restored all the recording picture control settings at the time
<br>I was fiddling with them because I didn't want to make things worse and <br>they didn't appear to be affecting this problem -- no need for making it <br>*two* picture control setting problems. I don't even know *how* to use
<br>MythWeb yet. Somehow I suspect I need to do something with activating <br>an apache server, which I may have installed as part of following Jarod <br>Wilson's Fedora Core 6 installation guide, but... If it comes to that, I'll
<br>track down the section in Jarod' HOWTO and the references in the<br>MythTV guide.<br><br>I will try and see what I can do with nvidia-settings. I will also try <br>switching from the S-video cable to a composite cable (RCA to RCA) and
<br>see if that makes a difference (after I switch the xorg.conf TVOutFormat<br>option to match).<br><br>Any more advice?<br><br>Craig.<br><br>