Strange new video behaviour

[Chris Musampa]

Since upgrading my ancient laptop (Intel graphics see below) to Karmic last weekend I have a wierd problem, if I start mythfrontend after a reboot the menus display fine but video (whether live or recorded) is compressed into a narrow vertical strip about 2 inches wide. Oddly if I go to System Settings>Display>Size & Orientation, apply then remove any rotation or mirror settings, then use mythfrontend video displays fine.

It's not the end of the world but is a bit of a PITA, I don't know where to start but will post any info you ask for.

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)

Thanks in advance

[Snowhog]

Re: Strange new video behaviour

Until, and if, the Intel driver issue gets resolved, Intel GPUs (some, not all) are problematic in Karmic.

[Chris Musampa]

Re: Strange new video behaviour

Thanks for the reply Snowhog, your post implies there are known issues which hopefully will get sorted. In the mean time as a workaround is there a terminal command I could run at startup or login which would do the rotate/mirror thing I currently have to do through System settings?

[skunk]

Re: Strange new video behaviour

man xrandr