[mythtv-users] overscan problems with nvidia 8400 GS

Dale Pontius DEPontius at edgehp.net
Sun Jul 26 20:31:44 UTC 2009


Paul Bender wrote:
> Dale Pontius wrote:
>> Sorry, still don't buy it.  We need only 3 data points at the moment.
>> Barely mentioning various other appliances that also display correctly
>> through this TV.
>>
>> 1: IBM R50 ThinkPad with Radeon Mobility (using "radeon" driver)
>>   DISPLAYS CORRECTLY
>> 2: Daughter's boyfriend's Mac Laptop (details unknown)
>>   DISPLAYS CORRECTLY
>> 3: nVidia 8400GS
>>   DISPLAYS WRONG
> 
> I am late to this thread, so forgive if this has already been answered.
> 
> What NVIDIA driver version are you using?
> 
> I ask because I noticed that the 190.18 driver does not do overscan on
> the S-Video output (at least not in the same way as the 185 and earlier
> drivers). As a result, I cannot use the 190.18 driver when connecting to
> my television using S-Video. However, overscan on HDMI appears to be fine.
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Just tried 185.18.14...

Overscan situation is unchanged.  Furthermore, Mythfrontend doesn't come
up all the way.  I get the background, but no menu items.  Tried
kill/restart several times, no good.

Back to 180.60.

Dale Pontius


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