[mythtv-users] PVR350 and ivtvdev

Steven Cruysberghs steven.cruysberghs at pi.be
Sun Jun 13 11:48:55 EDT 2004


Op zo 13-06-2004, om 15:34 schreef Matthias Meyer:
> Am Sonntag, 13. Juni 2004 14:40 schrieb Asciimonster:
> > Matthias Meyer wrote:
> > >But since that the X resolution do not fit the TV Monitor. At all four
> > > sides are parts of display which are not be seen on the screen.
> > >It seems X play a resolution of 800x600 but the driver scale 720x576 to
> > > the display so I can not see 80 pixel in high and 24 pixel in width.
> >
> > The quick-and-dirty solution is to change the size of the myth GUI. It's
> > the third (or fourth?) tab in Settings->Appearance. You chande the X
> > size, Y size, X offset and Y offset to what is visible on the screen.
> 
> Thanks bit it did not work.
> If seems the ivtvfb only support 720x576.
> See my /var/log/XFree86.0.log:
> 
> (**) IVTVDEV(0): Option "fbdev" "/dev/fb0"
> (II) IVTVDEV(0): Checking Modes against framebuffer device...
> (II) IVTVDEV(0):        mode "800x600" test failed
> (II) IVTVDEV(0): Checking Modes against monitor...
> (--) IVTVDEV(0): Virtual size is 720x576 (pitch 720)
> (**) IVTVDEV(0):  Built-in mode "current": 41.5 MHz, 44.7 kHz, 74.5 Hz
> (II) IVTVDEV(0): Modeline "current"   41.47  720 752 840 928  576 580 584 600 -hsync -vsync -csync


Leave X in 720x576. 
What you see is the result of overscan. This is OK for your TV image but
the edges of mythfrontend are cut off. Set the frontend gui size smaller
(680x520 or someting) to fix this.




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