[mythtv-users] overscan problems with nvidia 8400 GS

jedi jedi at mishnet.org
Mon Jul 6 00:25:16 UTC 2009


On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 08:59:30AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 7:21 AM, jedi<jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > The documentation is wrong and TVOverScan no longer works in xorg.conf
> >>
> >> It isn't so much that the documentation is wrong, it's that none of
> >> the newer cards support that feature. Instead you need to construct a
> >> custom modeline via one of the various modeline tools out there.
> >> This is the same procedure we all had to do for CRT's back in the
> >> early 90's with XFree86, you can even blow up some old TV's just like
> >> in the old days before computer monitors had safety circuitry added.
> >
> > xvidtune used to be real handy for this.
> 
> xvidtune still exists

I didn't mean to imply that it doesn't exist any more.

I just haven't used it myself probably since the 90s.


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