[mythtv-users] Please help me get X running again on PVR350 tvout

[John Harvey]

The tv output is either 720 x 480 (NTSC) or 720 x 576 (PAL).
This can't be changed, this is the resolution that PAL/NTSC Tv's run at.

What problem are you trying to solve. If it is that some of your is off the
side and top/bottom of the tv this is an overscan issue.
Currently ivtv/x don't have a solution for this.
It can be worked around in 2 other ways

1) For X I believe you can set some window managers to provide a smaller
virtual desktop that can be positioned so that you can see everything

2) For myth there is a setting under appearance that can be used to position
the myth output so it can be seen.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Evan Burrows
> Sent: 31 October 2004 21:40
> To: Tony Rein
> Cc: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Please help me get X running again on PVR350
> tvout
> 
> Tony thanks for the advise, I will keep that in mind for next time.  I
> will make a not to copy down my myth box's ip so i don't have to drag
> out a monitor next time i mess up.
> 
> Sorry for not giving all the information needed.  I followed Jarods
> guide and am running fc2.  I connected a monitor to my comp and
> eventually was able to get back into my xorg.conf file.  I changed it
> back to the original file (provided by Jarods guide) and was able to
> boot my box back up and have it work again.
> 
> This still brings me back to the question of how do I alter my
> xorg.conf file to reflect a higher resoltion.  In the xorg.conf file
> that Jarod provides first changed the resolution near the end of the
> file from "720:480" to "800:600" but this didn't do anything.  Then i
> realized that further up in the file the resolution was stated again
> with a sequence of numbers after it that I don't know how to alter..
> Sorry that this is such a vague explanation, I am not at my myth box
> right now.
> 
> Any help on setting a higher res so i can see my whole desktop on my
> tv would be appreciated.
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:24:29 -0500, Tony Rein <trein at one.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 14:24, Evan Burrows wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I just messed up my xorg.conf file.  I just used one of the previous
> > > posts to set the size the myth ui outputs.  My desktop was running at
> > > 640x480 which is really annoying, so I went into displays and bumped
> > > it up to 800x600 to test and rebooted the machine.  Now I go to my
> > > svideo channel and the screen is all black so I am guessing that
> > > changing the resolution somehow messed up my xorg.conf file.  Now that
> > > my computer is connected to my tv how do i fix this? is there a way I
> > > can boot to command line and view it on my tv?  Booting up does not
> > > show anything on my tv screen.
> > >
> > > Please help!
> > > -Evan
> >
> > Evan,
> >
> > The easiest way to do this would be to log in to your Mythtv machine
> > remotely from another machine on your local network. I assume your
> > Mythtv box is on a network of some sort, so that it can update its
> > program guide information. Is there another machine on that network that
> > you can use?
> >
> > You don't say which distribution you're using, but if you followed
> > Jarod's guide and installed Fedora, then your Mythtv box is probably
> > running an "ssh" server.  If so, then all you need is another computer
> > on that network with an ssh client installed.
> >
> > If the other computer is running Linux, then the ssh client is called
> > "ssh" and is probably already part of your default distribution. If
> > you're still running Windows (you'll switch to Linux soon, don't worry)
> > then the easiest ssh client to use is called "Putty." Search in the
> > usual public Windows software repositories and you'll find it.
> >
> > Logging in via ssh will get you to a console, just as if you'd logged in
> > on the Mythtv box itself without X.
> >
> > Good luck.
> > Tony
> >
> >