[mythtv-users] Geforce 8600 S-Video Problems

[Tony Lill]

MaverickTech Lists <mavlist at mavericktech.com.au> writes:

> It appears that all support for overscan adjustment is gone from the
> nVidia drivers in linux, for recent nVidia cards.  No matter what
> version of driver I tried I could not adjust the overscan to bring the
> image back within the confines of my TV/S-Video display.  The image so
> so far out of the park that without some adjustment of overscan it was
> not usable.  The overscan sliders are missing from the nvidia-settings
> program, and any overscan related entries in xorg.conf seem to be
> ignored these days.  Well, ignored on recent gfx cards.

If you go into setup->appearance you can adjust the size and offset to
compensate for too much overscan. My nvdia card insists that my old SD
tv can do 1024x768. I used the controls to turn it down to
920x724+43+30, and now it just fits perfectly. mplayer was a bit more
of a pain, but try the -xy option.

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