[mythtv-users] oversized screen resolution after upgrade from f8 to f10

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Tue Jun 2 15:40:51 UTC 2009


On 06/02/2009 01:49 AM, Shanon Swafford wrote:
>> There are plenty of examples on the web, and even sites that "compute" them for you, here
>>     
>> http://bohne-lang.de/spec/linux/modeline/
>>
>> and
>>
>> http://xtiming.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/xtiming.pl
>>
>> for example.
> I just found this how-to and it helped me a bunch. 
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1003099&page=2
>
> It's all manual but after an hour of gyrating between "tweak and save
> xorg.conf" then "init 3;init 5" from another ssh shell, I now have modelines
> for 720p and 1080i  with I'm guessing one pixel of overscan!  Myth looks
> great on my Asus M3N78 PRO -> "PANASONIC CT-30WX15" via HDMI.  Only problem
> with outside of Myth.  At 1080i everything outside of Myth is too small to
> see and in 720p the X dialog boxes are too big to see all the dialog.  Not
> sure how to fix that yet.

Not to mention:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Working_with_Modelines
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Modeline_Database

and all the pages about specific TV makes/models (search the wiki for 
those).

Mike


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