[mythtv-users] Not getting GT220 Max Resolution

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 10 March 2010 10:59, Donald J. Organ IV <dorgan at donaldorgan.com> wrote:
>> The TV does a max of 1920x1080...just looked it up.  It has full 1080i and
>> 1080p support.
>>
>> So I am not sure what is going on.
>
> Please don't top-post...
>
> Your TV is probably reporting an incorrect EDID to the video card. An
> EDID is the information exchanged between the screen and the video
> card telling the video card what type of monitor it is, the
> resolutions supported, its size etc...
>
> Often TV do not report the proper EDID..
>
> I wrote an entry on how to manually set your video cards; it should
> work with your LG
>
> http://www.avenard.org/media/Patches_%26_Add-Ons/Entries/2008/9/5_xorg.conf_and_specific_refresh_rates.html

Having a Sony I may try that...

Can I ask a perhaps silly question? Having set up xorg to be able to
use all those refresh rates, how do you get myth to change refresh
rates to suit the source?

Nick (also in PAL-land, but on the right side of the Tasman)