[mythtv-users] Overscan : nvidia-settings vs xorg.conf

[Joe Votour]

--- White Joe <joe.white at consultant.volvo.com> wrote:

> In my SD setup I have been maintaining the overscan
> with nvidia-settings
> at 15 for the past 18 months.  Unfortunately, the
> settings would not
> survive a reboot despite the techniques documented
> on this forum.  Last
> night, I finally bit the bullet and began trying to
> find the correct
> xorg.overscan setting.  It was trial and error...try
> a number...restart
> x...rinse...repeat.  Finally I came up with the
> number 0.65.  
> 
> Is there a way that I could have found 0.65 more
> easily than what I did?
> Is there a describable relationship between the
> value of the overscan
> setting in nvidia-settings (15) and the value set in
> xorg.conf (0.65)?
> 
> jw
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I can't tell you how to convert from one to the other,
but with regards to nvidia-settings, are you sure
that:
1. You saved the configuration (the changes should be
in ~/.nvidia-settings-rc, and
2. That you loaded them in after rebooting
(nvidia-settings -l)

-- Joe

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