[mythtv-users] Resize screen on TV with FX5200

[David Watkins]

On 31/01/06, Urban Nightmare <urban at inetdesign.org> wrote:
> Stef Coene wrote:
> > On Tuesday 31 January 2006 15:55, Urban Nightmare wrote:
> >
> >> I recently made up a Mythfrontend for one of my older tv (around 25
> >> years old).  The only problem I have is that the top of the image in X
> >> is not at the top of the physical screen.  If I use the VCR with regular
> >> cable its at the top but in Xorg is not.  Using the overscan doesn't
> >> help this.  I'm wondering if anyone knows of a utility to move/resize
> >> (much like the controls on a PC monitor) the screen.
> >>
> > You can run mythfrontend in a window and control the size and place of that
> > window (you can change this in the setup of mythfrontend).  I do this so the
> > output of mythfrontend is exactly what's displayed on my tv.
> >
> Thats not the problem.  The problem is with X where its not at the top
> of the physical screen.

If you're using an nvidia card then you could try running the
nvidia-settings programme.  It might have a Y-Offset settings in
there.  Otherwise you're probably looking at playing with resolutions
and modelines in xorg.conf, but I wouldn't know how to do that.

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