[mythtv-users] Nvidia-6106 breaks 'separate video modes for GUI & TV playback'

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Thursday 15 July 2004 10:43, Doug Larrick wrote:
> Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > Is anybody else seeing this?
> >
> > I use the 'separate video modes for GUI & TV playback option' on my
> > frontend.  GUI is set for 800x600, TV is set for 640x480.  This
> > option says it uses 'xrandr' support to achieve the resolution
> > switch.
> >
> > After switching to the 6106 driver (had been using 4363),
> > everything is fine until I watch a recording or LiveTV for the
> > first time.  As soon as it does the video mode switch, my overscan
> > setting (whether from XF86Config or nvidia-settings, doesn't
> > matter) gets cleared and my picture becomes horribly under-scanned.
>
> I think I saw somebody complaining in the nVidia forum that when
> switching video modes, overscan settings are lost.  But that you can
> put them back with the new nvidia-settings tool.
>
> If that's the case, you could write your own 'xrandr' shell script
> that does the xrandr and then fixes overscan.  Just make sure it's
> first in your $PATH.  This will work unless & until you start using
> John Poet's multi-resolution patch, which calls the xrandr library
> directly rather than issuing a command.

Bah.  I'll just go back to the -4363 driver; the only compelling reason 
to upgrade to 6106 would have been if I was using VGA or DVI, or if I 
was using a 2.6 kernel, which I'm not.  Once again, Nvidia has failed 
to deliver a driver that doesn't break something previously working.

-JAC