[mythtv-users] Aspect ratio

[Daryl McDonald]

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:33 PM, R Kannan <rk111810 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 23:49:26 -0500
>> From: Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com>
>> To: Discussion about MythTV <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>> Subject: [mythtv-users] Aspect ratio
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>> 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?
>>
>> Daryl
> I had the exact same problem on my myth machine when I did not have
> nVidia drivers installed. Once that was done, the problem went away.
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Thanks to all, turns out it was the prop drivers. It was good
yesterday (no tearing) today it is exquisite. Much joy