[mythtv-users] PVR350 TVOUT Working!! But Quick XFree86 Question

[Scott Francis]

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>
> The way your TV shows the screen is as it's supposed to be, viewable
> area of the TV is only about 644x400 (for NTSC).
>
> Go into the configuration screen "appearance" and set your GUI size and
> offset accordingly.

Ok tried this every which way to Sunday.  I could change the size of the screen, but the offset appeared to do nothing.  I worked at intervals of 50 between +-200 for both axis and the screen never moved.  Not sure if this is a bug or not, but just wanted to let you know

>
> Don't ever mess with the modeline! There's only two modelines the PVR
> will work with, PAL and NTSC.

Thanks a lot for the info.  Wasn't going to mess with things before I got the greenlight that it was ok.  Remember the old days of Slackware where there was the disclaimer on XFree settings of "this can blow up your monitor"

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>Finally, I looked at my XF86Config file and decided to play with the line:
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>Option "TVOverScan" "0.6"
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>This was set to 0.6 per the example in Jarod's setup guide. I tried several 
>different values, restarting X after each change, and got the best result 
>(although not perfect) with
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>Option  "TVOverScan" "0.5"

Saw this in Jarod's guide also but it was for NVDIA TV-OUT not PVR350.  I tried it regardless with values of .2, .5, .6, and .8 and everything looked exactly the same.  BTW- I tried the Option in the Hauggpage Device section that defines the FrameBuffer.  If you had it somewhere else with a PVR350 let me know.

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>Good luck.
>

Thanks, still plugging away.  If any other suggestions are out there would be great to hear.  I'm going to see if there might be some way to have my X Desktop compress itself someway via some setting.  Now that I'm here at work, I'll be able to see if the collective unix guru knowledge here can help.

Scott