[mythtv-users] fonts being cut-off on mandrake installation

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 14:52 -0500, Donavan Stanley wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:37:16 -0500, Brian J. Murrell
> <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> wrote:
> > I have installed mythtv on my mandrake (cooker) box.  Looks great,
> > except, that most fonts seem to be chopped off at the bottom and sides.
> > Seems like they are not being scaled properly.
> > 
> > I have seen reports of needing to downgrade urw-fonts on FC3, however my
> > version of urw-fonts does not seems to concur with either the FC3 or FC2
> > versions:
> > 
> > # rpm -q urw-fonts
> > urw-fonts-2.0-14mdk
> > 
> > Any further ideas how I can fix this issue.  It look most horrible in
> > the EPG.
> 
> 
> Make sure you're running at 100 dpi for starters.

Close: 112x112 dots per inch

But that's because this is Xnest which is running on a Host X server
which is 112x112 dpi.  The real target here will not be Xnest however,
indeed it will not be X at all, but rather DirectFB.  But I wanted to
use X while I play and get it configured before switching things over to
the TV.

Surely that extra 12dpi is not causing such a huge amount of error that
I am seeing in text scaling.

Anyone know how to force Xnest to 100dpi?  :-)

b.

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