[mythtv-users] Blue band right side of picture

[Jim Oltman]

Does anyone have any more comments on this?


On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:59:49 -0600, Jim Oltman <cnliberal at gmail.com> wrote:
> I also am having this problem.  After looking closely at my screen, I
> have noticed some things:
> 
> The blue "bands" are actually the background of X I guess, or Myth I
> don't know.  The picture seems to be too far to the right.  The whole
> thing looks like it could go left and up several pixels.  On the far
> right of the picture, it looks as if it is off the screen.  Here is
> what I am trying to explain.  There is a blue background, X.  It is
> the size of the screen indicated in the xorg.conf.  The output from
> the nvidia card is not evenly placed on the screen.  The output is
> slightly to far to the left on the horizontal axis but not on the
> vertical.  There is more of a space on the top of the screen than the
> bottom.  When I run the overscan from nvidia-settings, the screen
> reaches the bottom and the left first.  There is a picture that is
> layed over the top of the background.  We will call this the "image".
> In my case the image is not covering the screen completely.  It is
> right several pixels and down several pixels which means I can see the
> blue background on the top and left of the screen.  I tried the
> xvidtune and it did absolutely nothing.  I told it to test the
> settings and nothing happened.  The screen didn't look like it moved
> at all.  I applied the moving left settings and tried to play a
> recording and still had the same blue bars.
> 
> Will xvattr allow me to move the screen over?  It obviously controls
> the color settings.  What else can it do (man xvattr doesn't reveal
> much).
> 
> 
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:10:05 -0500, Mark L. Cukier <mark at pemicro.com> wrote:
> > xvattr changes the background from blue to black, which would in fact
> > eliminate the blue bar. However, my real problem is the black space to
> > the right of the blue bar..... my picture is shifted to the left about
> > 3-2"!!! This is the problem I'd really like addressed....
> >
> > - Mark
> >
> > Phill Edwards wrote:
> >
> > >>I just switched from my nVidia TV-out back to my PVR350. The TV Quality
> > >>is much better... however, now I seem to be having this same problem!!!
> > >>I have a thin blue line down the rightside of my screen, with a thicker
> > >>black (dead) area to the right of that. overscan doesn't seem to fix
> > >>anything... this seems to be the area where the right side of the PVR350
> > >>ENDS!
> > >>
> > >>Has anyone experienced this? Any fixes? I tried running xvidtune, but
> > >>PVR350 doesn't seem to like any of the modlines involving making the
> > >>picture wider!
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >Errmmm - what's wrong with the solution posted in this thread re xvattr?
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >Phill
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