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How would I go about getting XBMC to run fullscreen in portrait mode, if that's even possible? I can set the display to portrait using "xrandr -o right", but fullscreen XBMC renders starting at about the midpoint on the screen and going right from there, so I get maybe half the screen at most.
I'm just gonna pretend this one here doesn't exist.
I've been trying to run XBMC Fullscreen on Ubuntu in portrait view, using "xrandr -o right" to rotate the screen. I've got the resolutions tweaked so everything scales into the new resolution properly, but XBMC doesn't want to render properly in 9:16 - it puts a big black bar across the first half of the screen and then starts rendering from there. A screenshot taken through XBMC sort of shows what I mean (the screen seems to be what XBMC is rendering, whereas what I'm seeing is the same but with the black bar on the other side).
http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/9079/screenshotfgg.th.jpg (http://img5.imageshack.us/i/screenshotfgg.jpg/)
The problem might be that when it tries internally to change the XRandR mode to one that's in the proper resolution- 900x1440 in this case- RandR throws an error, but I haven't been able to figure out what's causing that error yet. RandR also throws that error when I try to set that mode outside of XBMC, so that may just be something that's not allowed period. I've tried this on a couple different systems too so it doesn't seem to just be a matter of the card or the drivers.
Any ideas what's causing this and/or how to fix it? If I can get this to work I was planning on making it an option in the settings and then using the internal RandR controls to do the rotation.
althekiller
2009-06-24, 20:27
Good odds we simply don't handle such a case. File a ticket on trac.