When I attempted to evaluate the Elementary OS Freya Live CD (32bit) for a multimedia PC setup (Onkyo HTS + TV), I encountered a strange issue. The display seemed to be zoomed in to the point I couldn't click on the Try or Install buttons. And I was unable to resize or move the window to a position that would allow me to. After a bit of fiddling, I was able to use TAB then SPACE to get into the Live CD. After the OS loaded, the display still seemed overly large. Checking the settings it showed that instead of my Samsung 52" TV at a resolution of 1920x1080, the display was a Onkyo 7" and I couldn't even see the resolution as it was off the bottom of the screen. Any ideas why this happened? I can't even consider Elementary OS at this point, as I don't even have the ability to change the resolution from whatever it might be to 1920x1080.
Okay, I used xrandr to confirm the current resolution being used is actually 1920x1080, but the physical monitor size is being shown as 160mm x 90mm. Other distros are doing the same thing, but their desktops all scale appropriately (Unity, MATE, xfce, etc.). I'm not really sure what pantheon is doing... and it's not a zoom issue because super- and super+ work fine, so I'm already zoomed all the way out. Can anyone help me out here?
Okay apparently this is not the HTS itself, since I hooked the PC directly to the TV and have a similar issue. Looks like the TV is not reporting the proper EDID, so I'm going to have to try and acquire that information in another way, and see if I can force the proper settings through an xorg.conf.
This is very odd, I'm not getting the proper EDID information back from the TV when connected via HDMI, but it does using VGA. I confirmed this on a separate Windows machine so I know it's not specifically and OS issue. However I did dump the good EDID acquired over VGA, and tried to force it using the CustomEDID option through an xorg.conf. But my Xorg.0.log actually lists out: [ 6.022] (WW) RADEON(0): Option "CustomEDID" is not used and [ 6.564] (II) Quirked EDID physical size to 0x0 cm So not only is it not using the CustomEDID option, it's showing the screen size as 0x0cm (not even 160x90). Any Xorg experts out there, willing to give me some assistance. I'm using the default open source Radeon driver.
