[SOLVED] Help! Incredibly small fonts on TV (bad Xorg config?)

DSpider · 2011-07-17 19:22:46

Monitor suddenly died, now I'm temporarily stuck on my living room TV until I buy a new one. Good thing this POS has a VGA port ! What I don't understand is why everything is so small all of a sudden... Windows XP doesn't have this problem, even though I'm using roughly the same version of the proprietary Nvidia driver.

Maybe a misconfigured xorg.conf ?

Here's some additional info:

- Arch i686
- Openbox
- GeForce 7025 (integrated) with just VGA output, no DVI or HDMI unfortunately
- Sony Bravia HD-Ready (720p) TV - don't know the refresh rate but I'm guessing it's something generic
- no login manager, just a manual "startx" after logging in

Screenshots:

http://i.imgur.com/qiybE.png - As you can see, tint2 displays them fine.
http://i.imgur.com/Kookx.png - Can't read anything from nvidia-settings...
http://i.imgur.com/6cCcL.png - This is how my Sonata playlist looks like...

I tried messing around in obconf to increase the font size and now I've got a huge-ass right click menu and somehow I've got the window title to show up bigger. But that's about it.

Current xorg.conf: http://pastebin.com/P2dN3grx

Previous xorg.conf which worked fine on my now deceased LG monitor: http://pastebin.com/QN8gj99Z

Please help.

Last edited by DSpider (2011-07-19 10:08:14)

Meyithi · 2011-07-17 19:26:06

You need to look @ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xo … ze_and_DPI

I also occasionally use a Bravia, because it's a VGA connection and because it's a Bravia, the EDID info is crap so Xorg can't get the correct displaysize.

DSpider · 2011-07-17 21:49:52

[dspider@arch ~]$ xdpyinfo | grep dimensions
  dimensions:    1024x768 pixels (1626x929 millimeters)
[dspider@arch ~]$ xdpyinfo | grep "dots per inch"
  resolution:    16x21 dots per inch
[dspider@arch ~]$

"16x21" ??? Wow... I set it to 96x96 and now it looks fine. Thank you so much!

Any idea how to switch the resolution to "1366x768" ? It's missing from the nvidia-settings utility... I've read this wiki entry but I just don't get it.

[dspider@arch ~]$ sudo xrandr --newmode "1366x768" 85.25  1368 1440 1576 1784  768 771 781 798 -hsync +vsync
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
X Error of failed request:  BadName (named color or font does not exist)
  Major opcode of failed request:  153 (RANDR)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  16 (RRCreateMode)
  Serial number of failed request:  19
  Current serial number in output stream:  19
[dspider@arch ~]$ sudo xrandr --addmode VGA1 1366x768
xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
xrandr: cannot find output "VGA1"
[dspider@arch ~]$

Edit: Can't find output VGA1 because it's called "default". Duh... The method works, except it scrolls from left to right when I set the cursor to either sides of the screen... Weird.

http://hd1080i.blogspot.com/2006/12/108 … blems.html
http://www.avforums.com/forums/lcd-led- … 8x768.html

Anyway, after reading up on this shitty resolution, I have settled for 1280x768, the highest nvidia-settings can offer. So I guess I'll mark this as SOLVED. Now I just have to find a media player that will let me fine-tune the aspect ratio wile it's playing the videos in fullscreen.

Thanks for your help.

Last edited by DSpider (2011-07-19 10:04:24)

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#1 2011-07-17 19:22:46

[SOLVED] Help! Incredibly small fonts on TV (bad Xorg config?)

#2 2011-07-17 19:26:06

Re: [SOLVED] Help! Incredibly small fonts on TV (bad Xorg config?)

#3 2011-07-17 21:49:52

Re: [SOLVED] Help! Incredibly small fonts on TV (bad Xorg config?)

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