[ATrpms-users] Mythfronend fails to change screen resolution

[Kim Bisgaard]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:54:14AM +0200, Kim Bisgaard wrote:
>   
>> I was wondering if there has been any change besides upstream w.r.t. 
>> mythtv-frontend since the last (or possibly 2 last) update to 0.21?
>>
>> I have suddenly started getting errors in the log, and the TV does not 
>> behave as before (does not want to change to different formats 
>> 4:3/16:9). The errors relate to xrandr:
>>     
>
> Have you tried xrandr(1) manually?
>   
Hi Axel,

xrandr said it changed mode, but did not:
xrandr --verbose -s 720x576 -d :0
 SZ:    Pixels          Physical       Refresh
*0   1280 x 720    ( 325mm x 183mm )   50   53   54   55  *56
 1    800 x 600    ( 325mm x 183mm )   51   57
 2    720 x 576    ( 325mm x 183mm )   52
 3    720 x 480    ( 325mm x 183mm )   58   59
 4    680 x 384    ( 325mm x 183mm )   60   61
 5    640 x 480    ( 325mm x 183mm )   62   63
 6    640 x 400    ( 325mm x 183mm )   64
 7    640 x 384    ( 325mm x 183mm )   65
 8    640 x 360    ( 325mm x 183mm )   66
 9    576 x 384    ( 325mm x 183mm )   67
 10   512 x 384    ( 325mm x 183mm )   68
 11   400 x 300    ( 325mm x 183mm )   69   70
 12   320 x 240    ( 325mm x 183mm )   71
Current rotation - normal
Current reflection - none
Rotations possible - normal
Reflections possible - none
Setting size to 2, rotation to normal
Setting reflection on neither axis
[mythtv at jukebox ~]$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 240, current 1280 x 720, maximum 1280 x 720
default connected 1280x720+0+0 0mm x 0mm
   1280x720       50.0     53.0     54.0     55.0     56.0*
   800x600        51.0     57.0
   720x576        52.0
   720x480        58.0     59.0
   680x384        60.0     61.0
   640x480        62.0     63.0
   640x400        64.0
   640x384        65.0
   640x360        66.0
   576x384        67.0
   512x384        68.0
   400x300        69.0     70.0
   320x240        71.0

After a telinit 3; telinit 5 it worked as fine as usual!

Thanks!

Hope Greece is working out fine!
Best regards,
Kim
>   
>> 2008-05-12 10:47:16.935 Opening ALSA audio device 'default'.
>> DisplaResX: XRRSetScreenConfigAndRate() call failed.
>> 2008-05-12 10:47:17.981 SwitchToVideo: Video size 704 x 576: xrandr 
>> failed for 720 x 576
>> 2008-05-12 10:47:17.988 VideoOutputXv: XVideo Adaptor Name: 'NV17 Video 
>> Texture'
>> 2008-05-12 10:47:18.061 OSD Theme Dimensions W: 640 H: 480
>>
>> I'm using: mythtv-frontend-0.21-187.fc7
>> on Nvidia GeForce 6150 hw using 
>> nvidia-graphics100.14.19-kmdl-2.6.23.15-80.fc7-100.14.19-92.fc7
>>
>> Mar 15 11:29:06 Updated: mythtv-frontend - 0.21-183.fc7.i386
>> Apr 06 09:21:42 Updated: mythtv-frontend - 0.21-185.fc7.i386
>>