how do I set aspect ratio with dual head
I am running dual head here with two 17" TFT monitors, both running at 1280x1024. The normal display is fine, but certain applications such as media players (video) and Acrobat Reader seem to be getting confused. Both monitors are set as 4:3 ratio, but the desktop itself isn't 4:3, but 8:3. For Kontact, OO.o etc. this ins't a problem, and Noatun and MPlayer seem to work things out for themselves, but Kaffeine, Totem, Xine and Real make everything looked horizontally stretched - kind of like watching a 4:3 image stretched onto a widescreen TV - which is all well and good, but it stretches a 16:9 image as well to make it 16:9 again, so I end up with something like 32:9 video. I can use MPlayer, but I don't like its controls as much as Kaffeine. Viewing PDF documents in Acrobat is the same, the fonts are the correct height, but twice as wide as they should be, which makes reading long documents hard on the eyes. So, my guess is that somewhere these programs are picking up the information for one monitor as 4:3 and then using that ratio to work out the width of the content somehow. Is there any way I can set this up correctly so that I can see normally ratioed text and video? Cameron Diaz is looking a little podgy and poor Danny De Vito, well, he really is wider than he is tall! Dave
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 02:31, David Wright wrote:
I am running dual head here with two 17" TFT monitors, both running at 1280x1024. ... Both monitors are set as 4:3 ratio, but the desktop itself isn't 4:3, but 8:3.
Do the math: 1024/1280 = .8 (5:4 aspect ratio) :-) Carl
David Wright wrote:
I am running dual head here with two 17" TFT monitors, both running at 1280x1024. The normal display is fine, but certain applications such as media players (video) and Acrobat Reader seem to be getting confused.
I know the problem... encountered it on my work computer with an ATI video card in dual-head mode - interestingly... my nVidia vid card in dual head mode (home computer) works perfectly... it's only my ATI that's wonky. Anyway, take a look in your xorg.conf in the Monitor section. I had to redefine the DisplaySize so that my Monitor section looks like what I've attached below. Without the double X size, apps like Acrobat were really out of whack... once that double X size was added, the misbehaving apps started working right, and it seemed to have no effect on the apps that were working correct to begin with. -------------------------------- Section "Monitor" DisplaySize 676 270 HorizSync 30-81 Identifier "Monitor[0]" ModelName "SYNCMASTER 4S" Option "DPMS" VendorName "SAMSUNG" VertRefresh 56-75 UseModes "Modes[0]" EndSection Section "Monitor" DisplaySize 676 270 HorizSync 30-81 Identifier "Monitor[1]" ModelName "SYNCMASTER 4S" Option "DPMS" VendorName "SAMSUNG" VertRefresh 56-75 UseModes "Modes[1]" EndSection -------------------------------- C.
Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 08:57 schrieb Clayton:
David Wright wrote:
I am running dual head here with two 17" TFT monitors, both running at 1280x1024. The normal display is fine, but certain applications such as media players (video) and Acrobat Reader seem to be getting confused.
I know the problem... encountered it on my work computer with an ATI video card in dual-head mode - interestingly... my nVidia vid card in dual head mode (home computer) works perfectly... it's only my ATI that's wonky.
Anyway, take a look in your xorg.conf in the Monitor section. I had to redefine the DisplaySize so that my Monitor section looks like what I've attached below. Without the double X size, apps like Acrobat were really out of whack... once that double X size was added, the misbehaving apps started working right, and it seemed to have no effect on the apps that were working correct to begin with.
<snip xorg.conf> Great, I'll give it a try... I'm using an Aeolus FX5700LE card here, sorry forgot to mention that. Dave
Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 08:57 schrieb Clayton:
David Wright wrote:
I am running dual head here with two 17" TFT monitors, both running at 1280x1024. The normal display is fine, but certain applications such as media players (video) and Acrobat Reader seem to be getting confused.
I know the problem... encountered it on my work computer with an ATI video card in dual-head mode - interestingly... my nVidia vid card in dual head mode (home computer) works perfectly... it's only my ATI that's wonky.
Anyway, take a look in your xorg.conf in the Monitor section. I had to redefine the DisplaySize so that my Monitor section looks like what I've attached below. Without the double X size, apps like Acrobat were really out of whack... once that double X size was added, the misbehaving apps started working right, and it seemed to have no effect on the apps that were working correct to begin with.
Just opened a film in Kaffeine, looks great and normal, so do PDF's in Acrobat. That worked great! Funnily enough I had been wondering whether that would work, but thought I'd ask if there was a known solution before messing around with my xorg.conf ;-) Many thanks! Dave
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Carl Hartung
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Clayton
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David Wright