[mythtv-users] Phillips HDTV - xorg.conf - cannot see EDID

[David Fishburn]

On Dec 17, 2007 6:37 AM, Brion Swanson <brions at usalug.net> wrote:
...
> > Running in "Unscaled" mode on the television results in a very
> > annoying line of the far left of the screen about 1 cm wide that
> > almost looks like the screen has wrapped around (though it has
> > different text in it).  Not sure how to get rid of that.
...
> - For that line on the left, you might try playing with the TVOverscan
> option.  I've not used it myself, but it might have some effect. "The
> "TVOverScan" option can be used to enable Overscan, when the TV encoder
> supports it. Valid values are decimal values in the range 1.0 (which
> means overscan as much as possible: make the image as large as possible)
> and 0.0 (which means disable overscanning: make the image as small as
> possible). Overscanning is disabled (0.0) by default."

I updated my nVidia driver.  I just realized that have been trying 3
different versions as I have been trying various things.

That annoying edge is gone with the most recent
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.19 driver.

Dave