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sidrew at gmail

Oct 2, 2006, 8:01 PM

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MythTV HDTV Problems...

Oi... this one is killing me... I can't figure it out. I purchased a new
Samsung 27" HDTV capable of 1080i ... My video card us an nVidia 6800 GS ...
I connected the card to the TV via a DVI -> HDMI cable... Xorg autodetects
the video to 800x600 (not sure why 1080i isn't working ... perhaps I need a
custom modeline) ... and I've messed with other resolutions.

Mythfrontend comes up.. no sweat.... and it looks normal... but... when I
got into any of the menus... the controls are HUGE... I can't navigate the
menus because they're so friggin big ... it's crazy... I can't figure out
how to resize the menus into something readable.... when I have the myth box
attached to my 17" CRT... it looks fine...

Please help.

Thanks,

Andy


ivan.kowalenko at gmail

Oct 2, 2006, 8:10 PM

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On Oct 2, 2006, at 23.01, Andy Speagle wrote:

> Oi... this one is killing me... I can't figure it out. I purchased
> a new Samsung 27" HDTV capable of 1080i ... My video card us an
> nVidia 6800 GS ... I connected the card to the TV via a DVI -> HDMI
> cable... Xorg autodetects the video to 800x600 (not sure why 1080i
> isn't working ... perhaps I need a custom modeline) ... and I've
> messed with other resolutions.

Well, just because it says it can tune 1080i doesn't mean it has a
maximum resolution of 1080i (the TV that is). Try Googling for your
exact model, and posting your exact model here. Maybe someone else
has figured out your problem.

> Mythfrontend comes up.. no sweat.... and it looks normal... but...
> when I got into any of the menus... the controls are HUGE... I
> can't navigate the menus because they're so friggin big ... it's
> crazy... I can't figure out how to resize the menus into something
> readable.... when I have the myth box attached to my 17" CRT... it
> looks fine...

It's in the Appearance Options, I think.

> Please help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
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sidrew at gmail

Oct 2, 2006, 8:16 PM

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Well... it's a Samsung TX-S2782H ... I've been trying to reason out the
1080i modeline for this thing... there's one big problem I'm running up
against... when I do a "get-edid" ... part of the output is this:

Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC2 transfers
0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer

for some reason... it can't read DDC info via the DVI -> HDMI cable?...

So... the Xorg automagically detects the resolution at "800x600" ... and in
the Appearance menu... which is impossible to read (so I used my 17" CRT to
configure it...) ... I told it to use a different resolution (640x480) for
the UI...

One thing that might be the problem is... I'm using KDE... and when KDE
first fires up... the login screen and desktop are way too big too... so not
sure if this is a problem with KDE, MythTV... or nVidia overscan...

Thoughts?

On 10/2/06, Ivan Kowalenko <ivan.kowalenko [at] gmail> wrote:
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> On Oct 2, 2006, at 23.01, Andy Speagle wrote:
>
> > Oi... this one is killing me... I can't figure it out. I purchased
> > a new Samsung 27" HDTV capable of 1080i ... My video card us an
> > nVidia 6800 GS ... I connected the card to the TV via a DVI -> HDMI
> > cable... Xorg autodetects the video to 800x600 (not sure why 1080i
> > isn't working ... perhaps I need a custom modeline) ... and I've
> > messed with other resolutions.
>
> Well, just because it says it can tune 1080i doesn't mean it has a
> maximum resolution of 1080i (the TV that is). Try Googling for your
> exact model, and posting your exact model here. Maybe someone else
> has figured out your problem.
>
> > Mythfrontend comes up.. no sweat.... and it looks normal... but...
> > when I got into any of the menus... the controls are HUGE... I
> > can't navigate the menus because they're so friggin big ... it's
> > crazy... I can't figure out how to resize the menus into something
> > readable.... when I have the myth box attached to my 17" CRT... it
> > looks fine...
>
> It's in the Appearance Options, I think.
>
> > Please help.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andy
> > _______________________________________________
> > mythtv-users mailing list
> > mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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sidrew at gmail

Oct 2, 2006, 9:38 PM

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Re: MythTV HDTV Problems... [In reply to]

Ok... I guess I'm completely frustrated here... I finally got it doing
1920x1080 by adding this line to my xorg.conf:

Option "ModeValidation" "NoVertRefreshCheck"

But... aside from that... regardless of what resolution I seem to set...
the UI menus are just way too big... it's not the menu that includes "Watch
TV" ... it's the configuration menus... and I've tried forcing the UI size
setting it lower... but that just resizes the UI on the window... the UI
menus are still out of whack relative to my UI size...

I'm really hurtin' here... can anyone offer me any insight... to proper
modelines for this thing... configuration settings...

I'm running v.20 on Gentoo 2006.1

Thanks.

On 10/2/06, Andy Speagle <sidrew [at] gmail> wrote:
>
> Well... it's a Samsung TX-S2782H ... I've been trying to reason out the
> 1080i modeline for this thing... there's one big problem I'm running up
> against... when I do a "get-edid" ... part of the output is this:
>
> Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC1 transfers
> Monitor and video card combination does not support DDC2 transfers
> 0 seconds per 128 byte EDID block transfer
> Screen is not blanked during DDC transfer
>
> for some reason... it can't read DDC info via the DVI -> HDMI cable?...
>
> So... the Xorg automagically detects the resolution at "800x600" ... and
> in the Appearance menu... which is impossible to read (so I used my 17" CRT
> to configure it...) ... I told it to use a different resolution (640x480)
> for the UI...
>
> One thing that might be the problem is... I'm using KDE... and when KDE
> first fires up... the login screen and desktop are way too big too... so not
> sure if this is a problem with KDE, MythTV... or nVidia overscan...
>
> Thoughts?
>
> On 10/2/06, Ivan Kowalenko <ivan.kowalenko [at] gmail> wrote:
> >
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> >
> > On Oct 2, 2006, at 23.01, Andy Speagle wrote:
> >
> > > Oi... this one is killing me... I can't figure it out. I purchased
> > > a new Samsung 27" HDTV capable of 1080i ... My video card us an
> > > nVidia 6800 GS ... I connected the card to the TV via a DVI -> HDMI
> > > cable... Xorg autodetects the video to 800x600 (not sure why 1080i
> > > isn't working ... perhaps I need a custom modeline) ... and I've
> > > messed with other resolutions.
> >
> > Well, just because it says it can tune 1080i doesn't mean it has a
> > maximum resolution of 1080i (the TV that is). Try Googling for your
> > exact model, and posting your exact model here. Maybe someone else
> > has figured out your problem.
> >
> > > Mythfrontend comes up.. no sweat.... and it looks normal... but...
> > > when I got into any of the menus... the controls are HUGE... I
> > > can't navigate the menus because they're so friggin big ... it's
> > > crazy... I can't figure out how to resize the menus into something
> > > readable.... when I have the myth box attached to my 17" CRT... it
> > > looks fine...
> >
> > It's in the Appearance Options, I think.
> >
> > > Please help.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Andy
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > mythtv-users mailing list
> > > mythtv-users [at] mythtv
> > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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indulis.b at au1

Oct 3, 2006, 1:19 AM

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Re: MythTV HDTV Problems... [In reply to]

Try the DisplaySize setting in the Monitor section of /etc/xorg.conf, set
this to mm width, and mm height
DisplaySize 340 270

340 width, 270 height

multiply inches by 25.4 to get mm

Indulis


sidrew at gmail

Oct 3, 2006, 4:43 AM

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Ok... I'll give that a try... what is that setting supposed to handle?

What I can't seem to figure out is what's controlling the size of the UI
windows in mythfrontend. When I have my box connected to a 17" CRT...
(1024x768) the UI windows are sized properly... everything is nice and
readable... fits on the screen..

But... when connected to my TV... even at 1920x1080... the mythfrontend UI
windows are OMFG huge.... and don't fit in the screen...

Anyone?

On 10/3/06, Indulis Bernsteins <indulis.b [at] au1> wrote:
>
>
> Try the DisplaySize setting in the Monitor section of /etc/xorg.conf, set
> this to mm width, and mm height
> DisplaySize 340 270
>
> 340 width, 270 height
>
> multiply inches by 25.4 to get mm
>
> Indulis
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adeffs.mythtv at gmail

Oct 3, 2006, 8:27 AM

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On 10/3/06, Andy Speagle <sidrew [at] gmail> wrote:
> On 10/3/06, Indulis Bernsteins <indulis.b [at] au1> wrote:
> > Try the DisplaySize setting in the Monitor section of /etc/xorg.conf, set
> this to mm width, and mm height
> > DisplaySize 340 270
> >
> > 340 width, 270 height
> >
> > multiply inches by 25.4 to get mm
>
> Ok... I'll give that a try... what is that setting supposed to handle?
>
> What I can't seem to figure out is what's controlling the size of the UI
> windows in mythfrontend. When I have my box connected to a 17" CRT...
> (1024x768) the UI windows are sized properly... everything is nice and
> readable... fits on the screen..
>
> But... when connected to my TV... even at 1920x1080... the mythfrontend UI
> windows are OMFG huge.... and don't fit in the screen...

make sure your running at 100dpi

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mtdean at thirdcontact

Oct 3, 2006, 11:03 AM

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On 10/03/06 11:27, Steven Adeff wrote:

>On 10/3/06, Andy Speagle <sidrew [at] gmail> wrote:
>
>
>>On 10/3/06, Indulis Bernsteins <indulis.b [at] au1> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Try the DisplaySize setting in the Monitor section of /etc/xorg.conf, set
>>>
>>>
>>this to mm width, and mm height
>>
>>
>>>DisplaySize 340 270
>>>
>>>340 width, 270 height
>>>
>>>multiply inches by 25.4 to get mm
>>>
>>>
>>Ok... I'll give that a try... what is that setting supposed to handle?
>>
>>What I can't seem to figure out is what's controlling the size of the UI
>>windows in mythfrontend. When I have my box connected to a 17" CRT...
>>(1024x768) the UI windows are sized properly... everything is nice and
>>readable... fits on the screen..
>>
>>But... when connected to my TV... even at 1920x1080... the mythfrontend UI
>>windows are OMFG huge.... and don't fit in the screen...
>>
>>
>make sure your running at 100dpi
>

Or running recent SVN trunk.

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sidrew at gmail

Oct 3, 2006, 11:10 AM

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Ok... hmm... how do I go about setting that?

On 10/3/06, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv [at] gmail> wrote:
>
> On 10/3/06, Andy Speagle <sidrew [at] gmail> wrote:
> > On 10/3/06, Indulis Bernsteins <indulis.b [at] au1> wrote:
> > > Try the DisplaySize setting in the Monitor section of /etc/xorg.conf,
> set
> > this to mm width, and mm height
> > > DisplaySize 340 270
> > >
> > > 340 width, 270 height
> > >
> > > multiply inches by 25.4 to get mm
> >
> > Ok... I'll give that a try... what is that setting supposed to handle?
> >
> > What I can't seem to figure out is what's controlling the size of the UI
> > windows in mythfrontend. When I have my box connected to a 17" CRT...
> > (1024x768) the UI windows are sized properly... everything is nice and
> > readable... fits on the screen..
> >
> > But... when connected to my TV... even at 1920x1080... the mythfrontend
> UI
> > windows are OMFG huge.... and don't fit in the screen...
>
> make sure your running at 100dpi
>
> --
> Steve
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adeffs.mythtv at gmail

Oct 3, 2006, 11:13 AM

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On 10/3/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean [at] thirdcontact> wrote:
> On 10/03/06 11:27, Steven Adeff wrote:
> >On 10/3/06, Andy Speagle <sidrew [at] gmail> wrote:
> >>On 10/3/06, Indulis Bernsteins <indulis.b [at] au1> wrote:
> >>>Try the DisplaySize setting in the Monitor section of /etc/xorg.conf, set
> >>>
> >>this to mm width, and mm height
> >>
> >>>DisplaySize 340 270
> >>>
> >>>340 width, 270 height
> >>>
> >>>multiply inches by 25.4 to get mm
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Ok... I'll give that a try... what is that setting supposed to handle?
> >>
> >>What I can't seem to figure out is what's controlling the size of the UI
> >>windows in mythfrontend. When I have my box connected to a 17" CRT...
> >>(1024x768) the UI windows are sized properly... everything is nice and
> >>readable... fits on the screen..
> >>
> >>But... when connected to my TV... even at 1920x1080... the mythfrontend UI
> >>windows are OMFG huge.... and don't fit in the screen...
> >>
> >>
> >make sure your running at 100dpi
> >
>
> Or running recent SVN trunk.

even back to 0.19 Myth properly sized the UI if the DPI and
DisplaySize parameters were correct. 1080p with 0-20-fixes works
properly as well.

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adeffs.mythtv at gmail

Oct 3, 2006, 11:16 AM

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On 10/3/06, Andy Speagle <sidrew [at] gmail> wrote:
> On 10/3/06, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv [at] gmail> wrote:
> > On 10/3/06, Andy Speagle <sidrew [at] gmail> wrote:
> > > On 10/3/06, Indulis Bernsteins < indulis.b [at] au1> wrote:
> > > > Try the DisplaySize setting in the Monitor section of /etc/xorg.conf,
> set
> > > this to mm width, and mm height
> > > > DisplaySize 340 270
> > > >
> > > > 340 width, 270 height
> > > >
> > > > multiply inches by 25.4 to get mm
> > >
> > > Ok... I'll give that a try... what is that setting supposed to handle?
> > >
> > > What I can't seem to figure out is what's controlling the size of the UI
> > > windows in mythfrontend. When I have my box connected to a 17" CRT...
> > > (1024x768) the UI windows are sized properly... everything is nice and
> > > readable... fits on the screen..
> > >
> > > But... when connected to my TV... even at 1920x1080... the mythfrontend
> UI
> > > windows are OMFG huge.... and don't fit in the screen...
> >
> > make sure your running at 100dpi
>
> Ok... hmm... how do I go about setting that?
>

via google...

Option "DPI" "96 x 96"

in your device section should do the trick
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masterclc at gmail

Oct 3, 2006, 11:17 AM

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On 10/3/06, Andy Speagle <sidrew [at] gmail> wrote:
> Ok... hmm... how do I go about setting that?

Option "IgnoreEDID" "True"
Option "DPI" "100"

Actually, after I wrote that, it may just be:
"DPI" "100"

Try both or read the NVidia README, of course assuming you *are*
running the proprietary drivers.

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mtdean at thirdcontact

Oct 3, 2006, 11:25 AM

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On 10/03/06 14:13, Steven Adeff wrote:

>On 10/3/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean [at] thirdcontact> wrote:
>
>
>>On 10/03/06 11:27, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>
>>
>>>make sure your running at 100dpi
>>>
>>Or running recent SVN trunk.
>>
>>
>even back to 0.19 Myth properly sized the UI if the DPI and
>DisplaySize parameters were correct. 1080p with 0-20-fixes works
>properly as well.
>
What I'm trying to say is that recent SVN trunk no longer requires
100x100DPI, so users with non-square pixels can get the benefits of
proper font-sizing, graphics placement, /and/ aspect ratio selection for
software-decoded (XvMC and/or Xv) playback.

You can use any DPI you desire in SVN trunk versions r11174 and higher
as long as you have the proper aspect ratio defined (i.e. define your
DisplaySize in any increment of 16:9 for a 16:9 TV). I'll be writing up
all new descriptions of X configuration for the wiki/FAQ once the next
version is released. (Wondering if I should put something in now that
can later be moved to the FAQ upon release?)

Mike
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luis.m.ochoa at gmail

Oct 3, 2006, 11:33 AM

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On 10/3/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean [at] thirdcontact> wrote:
> I'll be writing up
> all new descriptions of X configuration for the wiki/FAQ once the next
> version is released. (Wondering if I should put something in now that
> can later be moved to the FAQ upon release?)
>
> Mike

Yes please, I'm about to hook up my 50" Panasonic plasma and have no
idea on where to begin configuring X/Myth to get it just right
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adeffs.mythtv at gmail

Oct 3, 2006, 11:39 AM

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On 10/3/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean [at] thirdcontact> wrote:
> On 10/03/06 14:13, Steven Adeff wrote:
> >On 10/3/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean [at] thirdcontact> wrote:
> >>On 10/03/06 11:27, Steven Adeff wrote:
> >>>make sure your running at 100dpi
> >>>
> >>Or running recent SVN trunk.
> >>
> >>
> >even back to 0.19 Myth properly sized the UI if the DPI and
> >DisplaySize parameters were correct. 1080p with 0-20-fixes works
> >properly as well.
> >
> What I'm trying to say is that recent SVN trunk no longer requires
> 100x100DPI, so users with non-square pixels can get the benefits of
> proper font-sizing, graphics placement, /and/ aspect ratio selection for
> software-decoded (XvMC and/or Xv) playback.
>
> You can use any DPI you desire in SVN trunk versions r11174 and higher
> as long as you have the proper aspect ratio defined (i.e. define your
> DisplaySize in any increment of 16:9 for a 16:9 TV). I'll be writing up
> all new descriptions of X configuration for the wiki/FAQ once the next
> version is released. (Wondering if I should put something in now that
> can later be moved to the FAQ upon release?)

Oh, well, thats a great improvement! hadn't noticed that went into SVN.

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mtdean at thirdcontact

Oct 3, 2006, 11:39 AM

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On 10/03/06 14:17, Chad wrote:

>On 10/3/06, Andy Speagle <sidrew [at] gmail> wrote:
>
>
>>Ok... hmm... how do I go about setting that?
>>
>>
>
>Option "IgnoreEDID" "True"
>Option "DPI" "100"
>
>Actually, after I wrote that, it may just be:
>"DPI" "100"
>
>Try both or read the NVidia README, of course assuming you *are*
>running the proprietary drivers.
>

Or, better, try the MythTV Wiki's FAQ, which gives info in a much more
concise manner than the NVIDIA README:

http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Q:_All_my_fonts_look_like_they_are_the_wrong_sizes.2C_how_can_I_correct_this.3F

Mike
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sidrew at gmail

Oct 3, 2006, 11:40 AM

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Re: MythTV HDTV Problems... [In reply to]

I'll bet this is it.... because... for some reason... my TV doesn't do
DDC/EDID... so when X tries to figure it out automagically... I see a line
about it setting DPI to like... "308 x 308".... so I guess that would
probably be the problem.

Figuring out modelines for this beast is also quite a challenge...

Thanks for the help, all...


On 10/3/06, Chad <masterclc [at] gmail> wrote:
>
> On 10/3/06, Andy Speagle <sidrew [at] gmail> wrote:
> > Ok... hmm... how do I go about setting that?
>
> Option "IgnoreEDID" "True"
> Option "DPI" "100"
>
> Actually, after I wrote that, it may just be:
> "DPI" "100"
>
> Try both or read the NVidia README, of course assuming you *are*
> running the proprietary drivers.
>
> -Chad
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mtdean at thirdcontact

Oct 3, 2006, 12:10 PM

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On 10/03/06 14:33, Luis Ochoa wrote:

>On 10/3/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean [at] thirdcontact> wrote:
>
>
>>I'll be writing up
>>all new descriptions of X configuration for the wiki/FAQ once the next
>>version is released. (Wondering if I should put something in now that
>>can later be moved to the FAQ upon release?)
>>
>Yes please, I'm about to hook up my 50" Panasonic plasma and have no
>idea on where to begin configuring X/Myth to get it just right
>

Assuming you're using 0.20-fixes, use
http://mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Q:_All_my_fonts_look_like_they_are_the_wrong_sizes.2C_how_can_I_correct_this.3F
to ensure you have the right DPI settings.

If you're using SVN trunk, I'll try to get something up there in the
next couple of days.

Mike
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