[mythtv-users] overscan problems with nvidia 8400 GS

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Nick Rout<nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Phil Wild<philwild at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyway, my panel detects "1080p" when I monitor the Mythtv input.
>>>
>>> I have obvious overscan, and wonder what my best option is to fix that.  Should I upgrade to the 185.18.14 nvidia driver? (I noticed atrpms has that version now)  I have 177.80 now.  Figured this couldn;t hurt.
>>>
>>> Larry
>>>
>>
>> Check through the menu of the tv and see if you can get it to auto
>> scan to the signal. On my Samsung panel I can choose between 4:3, 16:9
>> and "just scan". The default is 16:9 and on this, there is some
>> overscan. If I change the setting to "just scan" I get the whole
>> image.
>
> Similarly on a 6 month old Sony Bravia (1080p). The menu is:
>
> HOME > Settings > Setup > Screen Settings > Display Area
>
> It was set to NORMAL
> I changed it to FULL PIXEL
>
> I found that after hours of google.
>

Sorry I should have said, its an 8400GS card over DVI to the TV's HDMI
input via a DV-HDMI cable.