[mythtv-users] 9400GT PCI - No Overscan - Odd!

[Allen Edwards]

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Been mucking around trying to get a mythbuntu jaunty box to behave as a
> front-end and managed to uninstall the nvidia glx and then the box would not
> start X.  Tell it to restart X, press cancel and it started into some damn
> thing which was X like but apparently not nvidia X, according to NVIDIA X
> Server Settings the NVIDIA X driver was not being used.  Display said it was
> running at 800x600.  As it is can still remote in using VNC so I am assuming
> some sort of X was running, Xorg was running as a process.
>
> The odd thing was there was no overscan that was expected normally even at
> this resolution.  This was over component into a 32" semi-HD CRT.
>
> Can anyone make sense of that as I was still expecting overscan, certainly
> from a default desktop?
>
> Can we exploit that somehow?  I imagine the answer is if you want vdpau (I
> do on this box) then one has to run nvidia's glx >= 180.xx....   Still odd
> that there was no overscan!

Overscan is an S-Video thing.  Is that what you were using to drive
your semi-HD CRT?

Allen