[mythtv-users] Wrong aspect ratio, weird fonts after upgrading to ubuntu gutsy 7.10

[Nicolas Will]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 10:36 +0100, Ashley Bostock wrote:
> I have the same font problem with gutsy + mythtv but can't seem to
> resolve it with the previous advice.
> I have myth running on a 16:10 monitor at 1920x1200 (Dell 2405fpw) and
> my xorg.conf has...
> DisplaySize 519 325
> ... which should be the correct aspect ratio and I've checked X is
> using this size setting by running xdpyinfo.
> 
> The main menu fonts look great in myth, but the OSD fonts only display
> correctly if the aspect ratio is set to 4:3. 
> Is myth seeing the 16:10 ratio and ignoring it (as it only has 4:3,
> 16:9, 14:9) then defaulting to 4:3?  or am I doing something else
> wrong?

I would suggest trying this soft link trick, it solved my issue, which
appears to be the same as yours:

http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2007-October/198247.html

Nico