[mythtv-users] how to set up xorg.conf for overscan

[David Watkins]

On 26/10/2007, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Whether my tv should our shouldn't have a setting for this is irrelevant; it
> doesn't have any shape adjustment setting available.  It seems my only
> choice for changing things are on the input side.  Remember, this is a
> standard definition, 4:3, CRT TV I'm talking about.  I would imagine most
> any modern HDTV would allow such adjustment (or should;) but mine does not.
> It's not too bad, I can certainly live with it.  I don't notice the
> distortion in the image, it's the black triangle I can see along the top and
> right side that's my problem.  So my original question was never answered,
> whether something like "tvoverscan" or whatever could be used to tweak the
> output of the TV-out on an nVidia graphics card to reshape/reorient the
> picture (like you can on a typical computer monitor).  I seem to recall
> being able to do this through the nvidia driver on a windows machine, but I
> think that was my workstation (at work) that has a QuadroFX 3000 card.  I
> tried doing something with nvidia-settings, but I didn't see anything.  Any
> ideas?

Yes - I have a 16:9 CRT and I used nvidia-settings with my nvidia 5200
to increase the overscan on the TV-Out so that I can't see the wobbly
edges down the sides of the picture nor the black bars at the top and
bottom.

So it *should* work for you.