[mythtv-users] Overscan with nVidia drivers greater than version 300 - Example on wiki
John Pilkington
J.Pilk at tesco.net
Wed Feb 20 10:09:26 UTC 2013
On 20/02/13 03:16, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Mike Perkins
> <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk <mailto:mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk>> wrote:
>
> On 19/02/13 21:08, Nick Rout wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Jerry
> <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com <mailto:mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I stumbled upon this information when I was upgrading my
> system to Fedora
> 18 yesterday. With the newer nVidia drivers (greater than
> version 300),
> you can add a line to the Screen section of xorg.conf to
> compensate for
> overscan.
>
> Brief instructions with an example are on the wiki:
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/__Overscan
> <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Overscan>
>
> There is a link to the original nVidia README which you
> might find useful
> as well.
>
> I hope someone finds this useful. I've been trying to fix
> overscan for a
> few years now. I haven't seen anything on the list about
> this. The
> overscan on my television is quite extensive, and this
> cleaned things up
> nicely after about fifteen minutes of experimentation.
>
>
> yah back to the commandline. the nvidia-settings method, while
> it worked,
> as often awkward on an htpc with no mouse.
>
> You can always ssh in from another box.
>
>
> Not to use nvidia-settings i don't think. It wants to deal with $DISPLAY
> which will not be your TV screen.
>
I do most of my Myth-management in a window on a monitor. When I want
to use the TV I restart the frontend and use the --geometry option. I
do have the TV set for no-overscan but the overscan is still there.
This way the picture just fills the screen. I haven't found a way to
run both displays at once, though.
##############
#!/bin/bash
# Run MythTV front end on display 0
# This is the HANNSG HG191A monitor on VGA
export DISPLAY=:0.0
mythfrontend
###############
#!/bin/bash
# Run MythTV front end on display 1
# For Panasonic TX-L32E5B HDMI1 via DVI-I adapter
#
export DISPLAY=:0.1
#mythfrontend --geometry 1920x1080+0+0
mythfrontend --geometry 1860x1046+30+16
#############
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