[mythtv-users] OSD fonts badly rendered on a 16:9 TV

[Nicolas Will]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 11:08 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 10/03/2007 09:28 AM, Nicolas Will wrote:
> > I run Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10)with the latest updates at this date, on
> > x86_64, with MythTV, which means I am practically running Mythbuntu.
> > MythTV is at version 0.20.2
> >
> > It is connected to an HDTV using DVI/HDMI and is running at 1920x1080.
> >
> > I am currently using an NVIDIA card using the Ubuntu nvidia-glx (driver
> > version 1.0--9639). The problem existed as well when using an Intel GPU
> > in the same machine (2.0 then 2.1.1 drivers).
> >
> > The display is set hard to 100dpi in xorg using Option "UseEdidDpi"
> > "FALSE" in the Monitor Section of xorg.conf.
> > In /var/log/Xorg.o.log:
> >
> > (**) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (100, 100); computed from "DPI" X config
> > option
> >
> > All the normal theme stuff (general menus, EPG, etc...) is displaying
> > great.
> >
> > BUT -- All the OSD, when watching 16:9 TV programming, has fonts
> > rendered badly, with weird aspect ratios and character overlaps. This is
> > for the OSD menu, the program information, the volume setting, position,
> > etc...
> >
> > I tried many different OSD themes with the same results.
> >
> > I made a few snapshots of how it looks like. They are available here:
> >
> > http://www.youplala.net/~will/htpc/bad_fonts/
> >
> > Any info/dumps/logs/confs can be provided quickly upon request.
> > More info about the complete setup there:
> > http://www.youplala.net/linux/home-theater-pc/
> >
> > Any help regarding this would be gladly accepted.
> 
> Does your system show Xinerama enabled?  If so, are you only using one
> monitor?  (I.e. do you see settings "Xinerama screen" and "Monitor
> Aspect Ratio" in the "Screen settings" section of the frontend settings
> under, I think, "Appearance settings"?)
> 
> With new versions of X on recent distributions, X tends to report
> Xinerama as enabled even when it shouldn't.  There's code in Myth that
> handles aspect ratio calculations specially when Xinerama is enabled,
> and if it's not enabled (but X reports it as enabled), these settings
> (which only appear/are used when X says Xinerama is enabled) tend to
> provide information that overrides a proper X configuration--often
> resulting in font and/or video sizing issues.
> 
> If you have such an X install, you'll have to specify the proper
> Xinerama aspect info, too.



Michael,

No Xinerama at all.

None configured in xorg.conf, none reported in Xorg.0.log.

For completeness, I have posted both files there:

http://www.youplala.net/~will/htpc/bad_fonts/

Thanks for looking at my issue.

nico