[mythtv-users] Resize screen on TV with FX5200

[Stef Coene]

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 16:14, Urban Nightmare 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.
I had the same problem.  I configured X to have a fixed screen size of 
1024x860.  I don't know if this is the same as overscan, but the result is 
the same.

Stef