<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Nick Rout <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:00 PM, German Rodriguez <<a href="mailto:callmegar@gmail.com">callmegar@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> You can run it from a VNC session, and do the realtime adjustment, the<br>
> problem is that the VNC session has no overscan, so you won't be able<br>
> to see the adjustment in your computer monitor, you would have to<br>
> adjust in the PC, go look into the TV go back to PC adjust a little<br>
> more, you get the idea, but it will work.<br>
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</div>From a laptop sitting in front of the screen can be quite good.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">_______________________________________________<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I've just recently made peace with my latest frontend/monitor combination after an epic 6 week struggle to find suitable settings. I haven't fulfilled my ambitions, but I've decided to live with what I have at this point. I'm using an(a?) nvidia 9400M chipset and the 190.42 driver. I was extremely pleased to find the overscan slider had returned to nvidia-settings since I had last used it, but when all is said and done I'm not using it. <br>
<br>Most of my problems stem from my oddball monitor - it's a rear projection CRT HDTV with a DVI input that is capable of both 720p and 1080i native resolutions. My dream has long been to get everything configured so that I can watch any HD programming at its native resolution, but I've given that up at this point due to field order issues with interlaced content and an apparent incompatibility between xrandr and the latest nvidia drivers. <br>
<br>Back on topic, I suffer from horrible overscan. With the stock settings, the "Next" and "Previous" buttons are completely off screen on all setup pages. At first I enabled the nvidia overscan setting to compensate for this. This was when I was still trying to get 1080i to work, and I soon realized that turning on overscan compensation destroyed the picture quality in 1080i. The overscan compensation is just downscaling in the GPU. It is pretty good for cheap realtime downscaling, and not too noticeable during 720p video playback, but it results in significantly blurrier text in menus and on the desktop. <br>
<br>It completely screws up interlaced playback, but it isn't like interlaced playback actually works otherwise. I can hardly blame nvidia for not adequately supporting my archaic monitor, I'm probably one of about 17 people worldwide who actually still has a 1080i monitor. It may not even be an nvidia issue anymore.<br>
<br>At any rate, I finally settled on a custom 720p modeline that reduces the overscan as much as possible, and the lovely separate GUI / playback resolution feature of .22. I have my GUI resolution set at 1152 x 648 t omatch the visible portion of the screen.<br>
<br>If anyone out there knows the secret to smooth 1080i playback to a native 1080i display, please share.<br><br><br>-chris <br><br> <br></div></div>