[mythtv] No Video / fonts too big.

Daniel Staaf dst at bostream.nu
Sat Apr 16 09:22:25 UTC 2005


Tom Hughes wrote:
> 
> Is there any way of getting 100dpi without lying about the display
> size in the X configuration?
> 
> It's all very well saying that people should set DisplaySize to
> indicate a 100dpi display but that doesn't help much if the display
> is not a 4:3 display as you can't get the correct dpi in both axes
> and indicate the correct aspect ratio which Myth also relies on.

Use the switch "-dpi 100" when you start the X server. For example, this is 
what I have in my /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers:

:0 local at tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp vt7

/ Daniel


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