<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">doug at parkercat wrote:<br>
</font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><br>&gt; Tom Greer wrote: <br></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&gt; </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">
&gt; In other words, MythTV (and X) are formatting the output to 852x480 and <br></font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
&gt; </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">&gt; NVIDIA is scaling it to 1920x1080, then the plasma TV scales the image 
<br></font></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&gt; </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">&gt; back to 852x480. <br></font> </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
&gt; </font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&gt; </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">I</font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">f I were you I&#39;d put: 
<br></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&gt; </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
  Option &quot;UseEDID&quot; &quot;FALSE&quot; <br></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&gt; </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">in your xorg.conf as described in the nVidia README.txt.  Then your <br></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
&gt; </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">852x480 modeline should be in effect.  This should give you the best <br></font></font>
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&gt; </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
picture quality. <br> </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&gt; </font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&gt; </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Note that the pixel size of the video output has very little to do with 
<br></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&gt; </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
MythTV&#39;s CPU consumption -- we have to decode the full frames of the <br></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&gt; </font>
</font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">video at full size, then the video card does appropriate scaling. <br> </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&gt; </font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&gt; </font></font>
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">-Doug<br><br>Doug, <br><br>Thanks for posting to my post (which appears to have been hijacked).<br><br>
I&#39;ve started down this road.&nbsp; Unfortunately, when I insert this, X rejects all of my modelines and defaults to 640x480.&nbsp; I haven&#39;t figured out why yet.&nbsp; I&#39;ve loaded the HorizSync and VertRefresh settings from my owners manual.&nbsp; The log files simply tell me:
<br></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><br>&nbsp;(WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for &quot;852x480&quot;; removing.<br></font></font>
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&nbsp;(WW) NVIDIA(0): No valid modes for &quot;</font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">ATSC-1080-60i</font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&quot;; removing.
</font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&nbsp;(WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to validate any modes; falling back to the default mode<br>
&nbsp;(WW) NVIDIA(0):&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;nvidia-auto-select&quot;.<br>&nbsp;(WW) NVIDIA(0): <br>&nbsp;(II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:<br>&nbsp;(II) NVIDIA(0):&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;nvidia-auto-select&quot;<br>&nbsp;(II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 640 x 480
<br><br>I&#39;m sure that I&#39;m doing something wrong in my xorg.conf; but I can&#39;t see where.&nbsp; Here are the monitor, device and screen sections:<br><br>Section &quot;Monitor&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Identifier&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Monitor0&quot;
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; VendorName&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Panasonic&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ModelName&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;42in EDTV&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; HorizSync&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 15.7 - 45.0<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; VertRefresh&nbsp; 60.0 - 60.0<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Option&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;ExactModeTimingsDVI&quot; &quot;true&quot;
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Option&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;ConnectedMonitor&quot; &quot;DFP&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Option&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;UseDisplayDevice&quot; &quot;DFP&quot;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; # Native resolution on this TV is 852x480 &nbsp;<br></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Modeline&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;852x480&quot; 
33.07 852 872 912 1068 480 483 488 516 -hsync -vsync<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ModeLine&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;ATSC-1080-60i&quot; 74.2 1920 1960 2016 2200 1080 1082 1088 1125 interlace<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Option&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;dpms&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Option&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;UseEdidDPI&quot; &quot;FALSE&quot;
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Option&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;DPI&quot; &quot;100 x 100&quot;<br>EndSection<br><br>Section &quot;Device&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Identifier&nbsp; &quot;Videocard0&quot;<br></font></font><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">
<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Driver&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;nvidia&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Option&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;NVAGP&quot; &quot;2&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Option&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;XvmcUsesTextures&quot; &quot;True&quot;
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Option&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;UseEvents&quot; &quot;True&quot;<br>EndSection<br><br>Section &quot;Screen&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Identifier &quot;Screen0&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Device&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Videocard0&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Monitor&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;Monitor0&quot;
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DefaultDepth&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 24<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SubSection &quot;Display&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Viewport&nbsp; 0 0<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Depth&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 24<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Modes&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;852x480&quot; &quot;ATSC-1080-60i&quot;<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; EndSubSection
<br>EndSection<br></font></font><br><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Any ideas?<br></font></font>