[mythtv-users] HELP: Front/Backend resolution stuck on 640 x 480

[Brent Bolin]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Gavin Whitehead
<gavin at alabastercranium.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm in the process of getting to grips with MythTV (0.22) and have it
> installed on a Xubuntu system.
>
> Last night I switched to using the Restricted Drive for my AMD graphics
> card.  Everything was fine except that when viewing Live TV I get two copies
> of the TV picture one above the other (I am still just 'watching TV' using
> my PC monitor).  I soon discovered that the OSD had an entry called 'Video
> Scan' and setting this to Progressive set the TV picture back to normal.
>  But every time I watch Live TV I have to go and set Video Scan to
> Progressive.
>
> Thinking there must be a setting to make Progressive the default I started
> looking around the settings in the Frontend.  I can't remember exactly what
> I found, something about the resolution of the GUI and resolution of the TV;
> but I clicked Finish before making the correct changes and now my frontend
> and backend both run at 640 x 480.
> Unfortunately this means that most of the menus are now off the screen so I
> can't see to navigate back and reset the resolution.
>
> Can anyone help me unpick the sorry mess I have gotten in to?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Gav
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If Mythweb is running try resetting it there.  I once got one of my
frontends messed up and fixed it that way.