[mythtv-users] Help getting HDMI to work for mythfrontend

[Chris Porter]

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Alessandro
<alessandro.campobassi at gmail.com>wrote:

> > weird that it still read from the EDID, even though you have the
> > option not to, I guess this is related to the CustomEDID forcing it
> > way.
> > So you have 4 1440x900 modes
> >
> > Remove the :  "UseEDIDFreqs" "False" line
>
> > Restart X and try to go through all the 1440x900 modelines
> > DISPLAY=:0.0 xrandr --output default --mode "1440x900" -r x (where x
> > is 50 to 53 inclusive, 52 with UseEDIDFreqs set to true)
> > If that still doesn't work...
>
> Thanks for your help, but sadly - no, none of those worked :(
>
>
> > You should post on the nvidia linux forum:
> > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
>
> Ok - I'll try posting there, surely someone is using the same TV
> somewhere?!!
>
> > There are many TVs not accepting their native resolution when using
> > hdmi and they only take official one like 1280x720 or 1920x1080. Your
> > TV accepts those, try with them (DISPLAY=:0.0 xrandr --output default
> --mode "1280x720")
>
> Neither of those worked either :(
>
> back to the drawing board I go!
> Cheers again
> A
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what happens if you remove your custom modeline from X and try?

 SubSection     "Display"
     Depth       24
     Modes      "1920x108" "1440x900" "1280x720"
 EndSubSection
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