[mythtv-users] OT:? GeForce MX4000 and TV Out oddness

[Brad DerManouelian]

This may sound obvious, but make it bigger until your border is gone. :)

It would be nice (hint, hint developers) if we could define margins  
for the GUI and OSD so we wouldn't have to choose between borders and  
info getting cut off. I have a happy balance between those options  
after a bunch of tweaking. I cut off a little and have no borders.

On Nov 29, 2005, at 8:38 AM, SpEnT wrote:

> Ok so I finally got my cable and have managed to get everything
> working fairly decent with a few issues. One is that no matter what I
> seem to put in for a modeline I can't get my desktop to fit on the
> screen, it always overscans. I'm sure there is a way to do this I just
> am not sure how to create a line for this. I'm using Jarod's modelines
> and he included a modeline that does a different screen size within
> 960x540p (880x480) but I still can't make it fit my screen. Luckily
> for Myth this isn't a problem because you can specify the size and
> offset which I have. The problem is playing movies. Using external
> players the movie is always just a bit off the screen so I miss some
> things.
>
> My MythTV settings are:
> GUI Width: 880
> GUI Height: 507
> X Offset: 40
> Y Offset: 16
>
> ... this has it pretty much centered and looking good but when I set
> the TV to play in the GUI size window I get a fine blue border I'm
> concerned *may* cause burn in. I've tried changing the size of the
> Myth GUI but it doesn't seem to change anything.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how to alter modelines so that you can have
> a scaled screen size that fits your screen in a certain resolution
> timing? I think if I could get my desktop showing up perfectly on my
> screen that would fix any little problems I'm having now. Here is my
> xorg.conf file:
>
> # Xorg X server configuration for HDTV
> # by Jarod Wilson
> # bastardized by Lonny Selinger Tue Nov 22 10:32:23 CST 2005
> # Last changes: Tue Nov 29 07:35:04 CST 2005
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier "layout1"
>     InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
>     InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
>     Screen "screen1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Files"
>     # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated  
> together)
>     # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server  
> independent of
>     # the X server to render fonts.
>     FontPath "unix/:-1"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Module"
>     Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
>     Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
>     Load "extmod"
>     Load "type1"
>     Load "freetype"
>     Load "glx" # 3D layer
> #   Load  "fbdevhw"
> #   Load  "record"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier "Keyboard1"
>     Driver "keyboard"
>     Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
>     Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier "Mouse1"
>     Driver "mouse"
>     Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
>     Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
>     Option "Emulate3Buttons"
>     Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
>     Option "EmulateWheel"
>     Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
> EndSection
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier "monitor1"
>     VendorName "Toshiba"
>     ModelName "57 in HDTV"
>     HorizSync 31.5-37.9
>     VertRefresh 50-70
>     Option  "DPMS"
>
>     # My 960x540p mode
>         Mode "960x540p"
>             DotClock 37.26
>             HTimings 960 976 1008 1104
>             VTimings 540 542 548 563
>             Flags "+HSync" "+VSync"
>         EndMode
>     # My 880x480in540p mode
>         Mode "in540p"
>             DotClock 37.26
>             HTimings 880 944 1048 1104
>             VTimings 480 506 520 563
>             Flags "+HSync" "+VSync"
>         EndMode
>     # My 1920x1080i mode
>         Mode "1920x1080i"
>             DotClock 74.52
>             HTimings 1920 1952 2016 2208
>             VTimings 1080 1084 1096 1126
>             Flags "-HSync" "-VSync" "Interlace"
>         EndMode
>     # My 1760x960in1080i mode
>         Mode "in1080i"
>             DotClock 74.52
>             HTimings 1760 1888 2096 2208
>             VTimings 960 1012 1028 1126
>             Flags "-HSync" "-VSync" "Interlace"
>         EndMode
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
>     AllowMouseOpenFail
>     Option "blank time" "0"
>     Option "standby time" "0"
>     Option "suspend time" "0"
>     Option "off time" "0"
> EndSection
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier  "device1"
>         Driver      "nvidia"
>         VendorName  "ASUS"
>         BoardName   "GeForce4 FX 4000"
>         Option      "NoDDC"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier "screen1"
>     Device     "device1"
>     Monitor    "monitor1"
>     DefaultDepth     24
>     Option "TVStandard" "HD480p"
>         SubSection "Display"
>             Depth     24
>             #Modes  "960x540"
>             Modes    "960x540p"
>         EndSubSection
> EndSection
> #Section "DRI"
> #   Group        0
> #   Mode         0666
> #EndSection
>
>
> I'm using a DVI-HDMI cable right now on a GeForce FX 5200VS if that
> helps at all. The overscan also happens while the machine is booting
> but I really don't care as long as it can all fit properly in X.
> Again, thanks for all your help everyone (and any suggestions you can
> give me on tuning this a bit more)
>
> --
> Lonny
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