[mythtvnz] Xorg and lcd tv's

[Barry Clearwater]

I think its an awesome wee screen, I just figured I hadn't quite sorted
out all my settings. 



On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:52:25 +1200,
Dylan Hall wrote 

> I found adding the following to the xorg.conf file sorted it:
> 
>         Option "UseEDIDDpi" "FALSE"
>         Option "DPI" "75 x 75"

And this was the magic bullet^^^  75 DPI has solved my major screen font
problem!!!!  Thank you Dylan.

Hads, where abouts do you use xset dpms force off? Is it something you
run as part of a power saving setting in myth? Have you linked it to the
poweroff button of your remote somehow?
TFTH
Barry

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 09:58 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2008 09:52:25 Dylan Hall wrote:
> > I have the Sony KLV40V300A which goes great, with one exception. It
> > reports the wrong physical size through the EDID data so the fonts end
> > up very small.
> 
> Interesting, we use the same TV here and I haven't seen this problem.
> 
> > The TV operates at 1360x768 with 3 empty columns of pixels on each side.
> 
> Same here.
> 
> One of the reasons I bought this TV was that it does DPMS. This means that I 
> can `xset dpms force off` on the mythbox to put the TV into standby mode.
> 
> hads

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