[mythtv-users] how to set up xorg.conf for overscan [update]

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

An update on the situation. I switched to the 'nv' driver and with it I was allowed
to use, with good results, an unusual modeline of 1192x672:

# Driver mode "1280x720": 63.8 MHz, 44.3 kHz, 59.7 Hz
   Modeline "720p60" 63.75  1192 1328 1360 1440  672 723 728 741 +hsync -vsync

This was the default modeline for 1280x720 at 60 that the driver generated internally
with the visual trimmed down. The blanking is, naturally, ignored by the DVI interface.
Furthermore, I then reduced the whole timing down and got identical output, again
suggesting that blanking information has no effect.

But more importantly, the TV displayed this on the full screen properly. This
is what I needed. Unfortunately nv shows distorted colours in the highlight of
the mythtv image (colours are correct if the focus in on another window).

However, I could not get the 'nvidia' driver to accept the non-standard mode,
even when specifying all the possible options to disable EDID.

Eyal

Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> LG lied through  their teeth when they said that their HDTV (RT-52SZ8R)
> is native 1280x720 - it trims a significant part of all edges, enough
> to make if difficult to use in text mode. It simply never displays this
> many pixels.
> 
> This cannot be adjusted, not even from the special technician menus.
> 
> I want to tell xorg.conf to send a 1280x720 DVI signal but use a smaller
> area as the drawable. I do not want to just tell the wm to void the edges
> or to set mythtv to a window (I know how to do that).
> 
> In effect I want to tell it that my TV over-scans, and it should
> letterbox the screen and present a smaller area to all the applications.
> 
> Using DVI it seems that all the blanking information is simply ignored
> so one cannot play with that, so letterboxing is the only option.
> 
> TIA
> 
> --
> Eyal Lebedinsky	(eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)

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Eyal Lebedinsky	(eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)