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

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 08:47:46PM +1100, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>> All modes use the full screen area on this TV, but this area does not
>> seem to contain 1280x720 pixels. Using the menus to shift the image
>> one can easily see that a sizable margin is not shown on all sides.
> 
> So you're saying that the entire bezel of the monitor is filled, but
> it's a window on the video signal behind it?  That's what I expect, yes.
> 
>> Some analog input allow me to adjust the position and size of the
>> image (but not the ones that matter - component).
> 
> Hmmm.
> 
>> Digital input does not allow size adjustment so you just lose the
>> margins. And you probably know that there is no reason to trim margins
>> on digital input.
> 
> Certainly.  You've fed the TV a signal that's a 1-pixel box around the
> edge of a 1280x720 image, and you could not see the box on all 4 sides?

I feed it a grid of size 1280x720 and can clearly count the missing pixels
along the edges.

>> My complaint is about the digital input (I did say DVI, which means
>> digital) which the TV calls DVI/HDMI which is an HDMI socket.
> 
> Ok; I came in one message too late.  See my question immediately above.
> 
>> BTW, by now I accepted that I was duped by LG, and got over it (not
>> that I do not mention that they lied when the subject comes up...). I
>> will me much more careful when I buy my next digital TV. This episode
>> still amazes me in how little one can trust what vendors say, even
>> when they do it in big letters all over the shop, the device and the
>> instruction manual.
> 
> This much is true...
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra

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Eyal Lebedinsky	(eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)