[mythtv-users] connecting mythbox to HD tv -- dvi->hdmi or vga->component

Phill Wiggin wigginp at mantech-wva.com
Tue Jan 31 19:16:27 UTC 2006


Preston Crow wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:00 -0500, Phill Wiggin wrote:
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>>So, it works for me (YMMV).  I _do_ have a problem with overscan.  The 
>>TV has a good bit of overscan both during bootup and inside of X.  I'll 
>>be playing with modelines to get it fixed in X, but I haven't seen any 
>>way to fix the console overscan.
>>    
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>
>I tried that and reached the conclusion that you can't do the modeline
>tricks when using DVI.
>
>I run the GUI with a specified size, and use xrandr to set the display
>size based on the recording.  It works fine for everything except
>mythgame.
>
>--PC
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>
Thanks for the info. (I saw you posted something similar a bit 
earlier.)  I'm not very concerned with MythGame (I have a MAME arcade 
cabinet for that kind of stuff), so your solution will probably work 
great for me. :)

Thanks,

--Phill W.


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