[mythtv-users] Large LCD Televisions?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 05:50:29PM -0500, Joshua Ferraro wrote:
> My problem is that I can't get the TV to display Xorg. I've got a DVI->HDMI
> cable that I'm using to do the display out to the TV, it almost works fine
> in text mode (except for the fact that the screen size seems to be too large
> for the display and my cursor and the left-hand side is cropped off the screen).
> My xorg.conf file looks mostly like http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/xorg.conf-HD.txt 
> except that I've obviously got a different video card. Basically, the only 
> error I've got to go off is the TV's 'mode not supported' whenever I try
> to startx.

You are almost certainly overscanning the TV.  I would recommend trying
to get X into a lower resolution mode (if you're configured in the
traditional fashion, Ctrl-Alt-+ and - ought to rotate between them),
and if that works, go into your config file and lock off the modes that
scan too high.

Cheers,
-- jra
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