[mythtv-users] modelines and NVIDIA binary driver

nik gibson nik.gibson at gmail.com
Fri Nov 24 07:26:00 UTC 2006


Under what menu's do you find the overscan options in nvidia-settings? I've
gone through every configuration option and I don't have anything related to
overscan.

On 11/23/06, Rajeev Goonewardene <fedora at ready2think.com> wrote:
>
> > I've gotten my new NVIDIA based fe running....
> >
> > I am using a Sharp Aquos TV, and the overscan is really bad - you
> > can't
> > see the scores with TuxRacer.  I've been playing with modelines,
> > but the
> > NVIDIA driver seems to be ignoring modelines in xorg.conf...
> >
> > Is there something special you have to do to get nvidia to use custom
> > modelines?  Or am I just hosed?
> >
> > --Yan
>
>
> I'm not entirely sure about the modelines.... Have you tried running
> the nvidia-settings program - it has many configuration items
> including overscan.  I has having a similar problems with overscan so
> I ran the nvidia-settings program which made a config file in the
> mythtv home directory - to load the settings you can run "nvidia-
> settings --load-config-only".  There is a section in Jarod Wilson's
> howto regarding the nVidia driver install:
>
> http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php#video
>
> I also used the nvidia-settings program to make my xorg.conf file
> (remember to back up your old one just incase).
>
> Rajeev.
>
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