[mythtv-users] Xorg nouveau driver vs. nvidia-driver
Stephen Worthington
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz
Thu Nov 5 17:57:39 UTC 2020
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 11:21:02 -0600, you wrote:
>On 11/5/20 7:46 AM, Barry Martin wrote:
>>
>> Ramesh:
>>
>>
>>> Is nvidia-driver known to be superior that I should try to keep it and
>>> adjust frontend gui resolution to make things fit or should I simply
>>> switch back to nouveau driver?
>>>
>>> Also, overscan is a general issue even with Xorg, and fixing gui
>>> resolution will not make Xorg better. I will have to fix Xorg overscan
>>> somehow. So, I prefer nouveau over nvidia in this aspect.
>>>
>>> Any help suggestion in improving what I have is much appreciated.
>>
>> nVidia does have a GUI option where one can adjust the settings to
>> compensate for the television's overscan. Used it with one of the
>> Frontends here because the TV did not have an overscan compensation.
>>
>> Barry
>
>I am not sure I understand. Can you clarify? Which utility are you
>talking about?
>
>Ramesh
nvidia-settings > X Server Display Configuration > Underscan
Set as much underscan as is needed to compensate for the TV's
overscan. This just creates a ViewPortOut setting in xorg.conf. You
need to run nvidia-settings from sudo or root for it to be able to
directly write to /etc/xorg.conf.
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