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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Some time ago when I had tiny fonts my
fix was to add a line like:<br>
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Option "DPI" "100x100"<br>
<br>
to the "Device" sections of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf<br>
<br>
With my current NVIDIA 304.135 driver that doesn't seem to be
necessary.<br>
<br>
John<br>
<br>
On 8/22/2018 8:51 AM, Allen Edwards wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the reply. I really do appreciate the
help.
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<div>I previously had a 6000 series card with the 304 drivers as
recommended but not installed. When I switched to the 8600
card the recommended driver was 340 and I installed them.</div>
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<div>I spent at lease an hour with Google looking for a solution
to the tiny font problem. The problem is that the font is not
just tiny, it is completely unreadable so it is impossible to
do anything. I can best describe it as this. If the text
should be "hello World" what I would see is "__". OK, not
quite that small but probably font that is 3 pixels high.
Bottom line is I can't do anything other than use Myth, which
is fine. Here is a screen shot and it really does look like
this.</div>
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<div><img src="cid:part1.3477C703.D6CB2CDC@moeraki.com"
class="" height="113" width="455"><br>
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<div>I also see that if I go to my monitor instead of the TV,
there I can read the characters sometimes but the monitor is
being detected as a smaller resolution. I can't tell exactly
what size as that readout is too blurry but I think it is 480
x something and not the 1280 or whatever the monitor actually
is. I suspect these problems are related.</div>
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<div>Also, I appreciate the links from mtdean but I can't do
anything on the TV as a monitor because of the small fonts.
Here is a section from xorg.conf that seems to lack specifics</div>
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<div><b>Section "Monitor"</b></div>
<div><b> Identifier "Monitor0"</b></div>
<div><b> VendorName "Unknown"</b></div>
<div><b> ModelName "Unknown"</b></div>
<div><b> HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0</b></div>
<div><b> VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0</b></div>
<div><b> Option "DPMS"</b></div>
<div><b>EndSection</b></div>
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</b></div>
<div><b>Section "Device"</b></div>
<div><b> Identifier "Device0"</b></div>
<div><b> Driver "nvidia"</b></div>
<div><b> VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"</b></div>
<div><b>EndSection</b></div>
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</b></div>
<div><b>Section "Screen"</b></div>
<div><b> Identifier "Screen0"</b></div>
<div><b> Device "Device0"</b></div>
<div><b> Monitor "Monitor0"</b></div>
<div><b> DefaultDepth 24</b></div>
<div><b> SubSection "Display"</b></div>
<div><b> Depth 24</b></div>
<div><b> EndSubSection</b></div>
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<div>I guess I will switch back to the 304 driver. Just to
confirm I so this by doing this:</div>
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<div><b>sudo apt-get purge nvidia*</b></div>
<div><b>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers</b></div>
<div><b>sudo apt-get update</b></div>
<div><b>sudo apt-get install nvidia-304</b></div>
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<div>Allen</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 2:42 AM,
Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a
href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span>
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<div class="h5">On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 01:39:38 -0700, you
wrote:<br>
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>This is not strictly a Myth issue but I need to
solve this before working<br>
>on getting VDPAU working. I switched to a Geforce
8600GT in the hopes of<br>
>getting VDPAU working which I failed at so far. But
what I am asking here<br>
>is how to get a workable system. I have two choices
now. 1) Single<br>
>monitor on the TV with all the system fonts and
icons so small they are<br>
>unreadable. I mean so small it is completely
unreadable. The MythTV fonts<br>
>are fine, normal, but the Ubuntu fonts are tiny. Or
I could 2) Leave the TV<br>
>that way and add a second monitor, which I have.
But the computer will not<br>
>recognize a second monitor. I have looked at nvidia
config and at the<br>
>standard Display section. Neither show a second
monitor. I do this with<br>
>the monitor plugged into the DVI slot that works and
the TV plugged into<br>
>the DVI slot that has no signal.<br>
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I can remember having that tiny fonts problem at some time,
and<br>
finding a quick fix for it via a Google search. But that
was quite a<br>
few years ago - probably when I was using 14.04 or maybe
even earlier.<br>
And I can not remember anything about the fix.<br>
<br>
For an 8600GT, I believe you should be installing the Nvidia
304<br>
series driver. Sometimes the recommended driver is 340
series, and<br>
that will cause problems with a card that old. So please
check what<br>
video drivers are installed. What is the output of these
commands:<br>
<br>
lshw -C video<br>
apt list --installed | grep nvidia<br>
<br>
Also, be aware that Nvidia has stopped all support for the
304<br>
drivers, so they do not work with 4.15 kernels without
patching. But<br>
they should be fine in 16.04 if you do not install the HWE
(Hardware<br>
Enablement stack) which brings in the newer kernels. I am
using the<br>
304 drivers on my mother's MythTV box running 16.04 and they
work well<br>
for her builtin motherboard GPU (Nvidia C77), which is a
similar age<br>
to the 8600GT.<br>
<br>
To run with dual monitors, the easy way to test is to use
the<br>
nvidia-settings GUI tool. Run it from a non-root command
prompt on<br>
the GUI screen. It will allow you to select the monitor
setup, if the<br>
drivers have seen more than one monitor.<br>
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