<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/9/05, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:chris@cpr.homelinux.net">chris@cpr.homelinux.net</a></b> <<a href="mailto:chris@cpr.homelinux.net">chris@cpr.homelinux.net</a>> wrote:
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 02:29:42PM -0500, Cory Papenfuss wrote:<br>> >Positioning problems are more properly fixed by altering the modeline
<br>> >timings to reduce the retrace delay.<br>><br>> Actually, they're more properly fixed by adjusting the monitor/TV<br>> so it doesn't overscan.<br><br>My new HDTV has no manual geometry adjustment capability at all. It
<br>has a "Perfect Picture" feature that automatically detects and corrects<br>for signal abberations or projection errors (size, position, keystone,<br>focus, colour, etc.), at least in theory. It gives me a perfectly
<br>adjusted image for every video device I own except when I'm running<br>Linux on the XBox, in which case the image is shifted down and to the<br>right by a significant amount. The XBox looks perfect when running a<br>
Microsoft game. That would lead me to conclude that something about<br>the video signal generated by the Linux drivers is not only incorrect,<br>but far enough off the standard that the TV can't even correct for it.<br><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>I believe the nvidia in the xbox was a derivative of the geforce 3 which AFIK does not support overscanning in the driver. You may be able to use a tool called NVTV to fix this, doing a search over at
<a href="http://sf.net">sf.net</a> should produce results.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Thanks,<br>Devan Lippman <devan at lippman dot net>