[mythtv-users] TVOverScan not working?[SOLVED???]
Alen Edwards
allen.edwards at oldpaloalto.com
Sat Jun 28 17:27:50 UTC 2008
Thanks for the help. Replies are bottom posted below:
> A quick cookbook on making the slider stick would be nice although
> the help file looks pretty simple. Easy for me to say, I haven't
> started doing it yet.
>
It wasn't easy. In fact, nothing worked as described. Nothing.
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> The nvidia-settings are not loaded automatically when you restart your
> x server. To get them to load automatically you just need add
> "nvidia-settings -l" somewhere during your x start up. I put it in
> ~/.xinitrc.
I don't have any file named "xinitrc" or ".xinitrc" on my system. I am
thinking that is not how it is done in Mythbuntu...
I tried several other (non working) suggestions and finally found a post
I translated from German that said to modify /etc/gdm/Init/Default.
That worked!!!
I added:"nvidia-settinge -a TVOverScan[TV-0]=12" just before "exit"
Is this a good way to do it???
btw, I didn't use the "nvidia-settings -l" option because
nvidia-settings was not saving the settings as it should. When I looked
at the file ".nvidia-settings-rc" nothing about TVOverScan was there. I
experimented and found a command that would do what I wanted and took to
finding a place to load it.
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> It sounds like you are running Mythbuntu or Ubuntu.
Correct
> The hardware drivers dialogue will load the proprietary nvidia drivers
> from the Ubuntu repositories. If you have installed the nvidia drivers
> some other way, like with Envy or straight from Nvidia then the
> hardware drivers dialogue will show that they aren't being used,
> because you aren't using the default proprietary drivers from the
> Ubuntu repositories. So even if that dialogue says they aren't
> enabled, you may still have the drivers installed from some other source.
You are correct. I don't use the drivers loaded in the normal way
because my system will not boot if I do. I disabled them there (which
uninstalls them) and loaded them with evnyng. That works.
I think I am done unless I have problems because of modifying
"/etc/gdm/Init/Default"
Allen
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