<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Jay Ashworth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com" target="_blank">jra@baylink.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In other news, the new VGA card in my sis's box is a GeForce 210, which is<br>
talking HDMI to her TV, a Philips 32pf7321. Which only has one HDMI<br>
input. With no knobs in the setup menus.<br>
<br>
And -- as I'm told is common with NVidia cards, and not as much with ATI<br>
ones -- it's doing two things I'm not happy about:<br>
<br>
1) It overscans. I may not be able to fix this on the TV, though I can<br>
probbaly figure out a way to do so in Xorg -- although I'd prefer not to<br>
have to jettison autoconfiguration entirely. (Does anybody know how to<br>
provide Xorg (1.12.3 from SUSE RPM) with *some* parameters to override<br>
it's autodetection?) Which leads directly into ...<br>
<br>
2) It lies. Since the TV is talking HDMI, it can tell X which resolutions<br>
it knows how to support, over DDC (I gather), and *since it can downsample<br>
1080i to the 720p it actually displays*, that's one resolution it supplies.<br>
<br>
And it's rescaler is garbage, and certainly not something I want between<br>
X and my eyeballs.<br>
<br>
But I can't see any way to tell Xorg *not* to listen to that mode,<br>
without building a complete manual config file (tree, since SuSE has<br>
broken that up into a directory) -- indeed, most of the manual config<br>
stuff seems to be falling fallow since autoconfig got as good as it<br>
generally is.<br>
<br>
Anyone have any thoughts on these video issues? I'm sort of assuming<br>
that if I can fix the second one, I can also fix the first, but I already<br>
tried putting a Monitor section in my 50-monitor.xorg.conf, and it seems<br>
to be ignoring it. Someone suggested something else to me last night<br>
(suppling a Screen stanza instead) and I'm going to test that now, but<br>
I don't know if it will help either.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure how different you SUSE setup is from my Fedora setup, but the following steps work for me:<br></div><div><br>Check out the second section on the wiki, entitled "With NVidia Cards and more recent nVidia drivers (greater than version 300)"<br>
<a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Overscan#Making_MythTV_fit_the_screen_on_a_TV">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Overscan#Making_MythTV_fit_the_screen_on_a_TV</a><br><br>First, create a modeline for the desired resolution. There is a
link to the Ubuntu forums article on that page, but I'll put it here: <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1003099&page=2">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1003099&page=2</a> It's very thorough. It will take you a while, but it's worth it. I'd recommend printing out that article and
using it as a reference. I also recommend a good cup of coffee.<br><br>Then, use that resolution and do the overscan configuration in xorg.conf as well. You need to be using the nVidia proprietary drivers. It requires a bit of
trial and error, but probably won't take more than a half hour to get
right. There is a link there to the official nVidia documentation on
the subject. I used the linked image on the page as my desktop
background and tuned up my television.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Your hard work should produce a working resolution that you can live with.<br><br></div><div>Good luck,<br></div><div>Jerry<br></div></div></div></div>