[mythtv-users] Siemens Scaleo E ( aka Elonex Artisan )

Roy Lofthouse lofty69 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 14:28:22 UTC 2009


2009/9/10 Simon Hobson <linux at thehobsons.co.uk>:
> Guy Dawson wrote:
>
>> I’ve been offered a Siemens Scaleo E cheap, and was wondering if anyone
>> here has used one with Myth.
>>
>>
>> Has anyone succeeded in getting a full screen output to a TV.  By full
>> screen, I mean without any black border, so it looks just like ‘proper’
>> TV.   I know this is possible with certain hardware, such as certain VIA
>> minitx motherboards running MiniMyth, albeit over VGA (which my Sony LCD
>> supports).
>
> I haven't succeeded at all yet :-( - see my thread from late August. I
> believe there are a couple of people with them.
>
> So far my experience is that whatever I put on my xorg.conf, it still sets
> the output to 1280x768. Needless to say, my old CRT TV couldn't quite manage
> that ! Since I've just got a new 32" LCD, I'm hopeful that I'll get a bit
> further now.
>
> Suggestion was to fit a low profile 8400GS card and forget the build-in
> Intel graphics.
>
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I run one as a frontend, plays HD @ 1080i perfectly (for me anyway)..
could never get it to work on a friends CRT though.. which was a shame
(until he finally got himself and LCD that is)

PS I did fit a low profile 8400GS... made all the difference.


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