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Been looking around on the forum and gotten along pretty far by all of the useful info, but I am stuck now.

I have been running the pi on Wheezy, openelec and the puppy, I have the problem that the screen seems formatted for wide-screen 16:9 aspect ratio and I am running through the RCA jack to a standard 4:3 or 5:4 aspect ratio tv. The text is very hard to read and each edge has info on it that I can't access because it is off of the screen.

Any help would be appreciated, I am a noob with Linux, but it is alot of fun so far!

This can be set in the /boot/config.txt file:

## sdtv_aspect
## defines the aspect ratio for composite output
##
## Value Description
## -------------------------------------------------------------------------
## 1 4:3 (Default)
## 2 14:9
## 3 16:9
##
#sdtv_aspect=1
You need :
sdtv_aspect=1

Also, in the config.txt file, you will see parameters to set the overscan at all four edges.