[mythtv-users] Aspect ratio

Daryl McDonald darylangela at gmail.com
Thu Dec 5 17:52:49 UTC 2013


On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Patrick Ouellette <pat at flying-gecko.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 11:49:26PM -0500, Daryl McDonald wrote:
>>
>> Greetings Mythizens I switched video cards in my Myth box today and as
>> expected tearing is greatly reduced. What I didn't expect was losing
>> the ability to fill my screen with recordings that are less than full
>> size to begin with. The "W" key still shows the different modes, full,
>> V stretch, and H stretch, etc, but the picture is not modified. I had
>> a MSI ATI card and switched to an EVGA nVida card. I don't know if it
>> is related or not, but it is coincident, the new video card gave
>> bigger launcher icons, it's now ubuntu 2D, and a little googling
>> suggested a "script.py" would and did remedy the over sized icons.
>> I'm running 0.27 fixes in an Ubuntu 12.04 desktop environment.
>> Suggestions on how to restore W key functionality?
>>
>
> Did you install the nVidia propriatary drivers?
>
> Pat
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I don't know, MCC has prop drivers enabled, but all I did was a
physical swap and try it out. I just did a system check for additional
drivers and I am downloading the recommended one now, thanks for the
pointer Pat.   Daryl


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