[mythtv-users] NVidia/overscan problem

[Jay Ashworth]

In other news, the new VGA card in my sis's box is a GeForce 210, which is
talking HDMI to her TV, a Philips 32pf7321.  Which only has one HDMI
input.  With no knobs in the setup menus.  

And -- as I'm told is common with NVidia cards, and not as much with ATI
ones -- it's doing two things I'm not happy about:

1) It overscans.  I may not be able to fix this on the TV, though I can 
probbaly figure out a way to do so in Xorg -- although I'd prefer not to 
have to jettison autoconfiguration entirely.  (Does anybody know how to
provide Xorg (1.12.3 from SUSE RPM) with *some* parameters to override 
it's autodetection?)  Which leads directly into ...

2) It lies.  Since the TV is talking HDMI, it can tell X which resolutions
it knows how to support, over DDC (I gather), and *since it can downsample
1080i to the 720p it actually displays*, that's one resolution it supplies.

And it's rescaler is garbage, and certainly not something I want between
X and my eyeballs.

But I can't see any way to tell Xorg *not* to listen to that mode,
without building a complete manual config file (tree, since SuSE has
broken that up into a directory) -- indeed, most of the manual config
stuff seems to be falling fallow since autoconfig got as good as it
generally is.

Anyone have any thoughts on these video issues?  I'm sort of assuming
that if I can fix the second one, I can also fix the first, but I already
tried putting a Monitor section in my 50-monitor.xorg.conf, and it seems
to be ignoring it.  Someone suggested something else to me last night
(suppling a Screen stanza instead) and I'm going to test that now, but
I don't know if it will help either.

Cheers,
-- jra
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