[mythtv-users] Overscan with nVidia drivers greater than version 300 - Example on wiki

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
> wrote:

> On 19/02/13 21:08, Nick Rout wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi all,
>>>
>>> I stumbled upon this information when I was upgrading my system to Fedora
>>> 18 yesterday.  With the newer nVidia drivers (greater than version 300),
>>> you can add a line to the Screen section of xorg.conf to compensate for
>>> overscan.
>>>
>>> Brief instructions with an example are on the wiki:
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/**Overscan<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Overscan>
>>>
>>> There is a link to the original nVidia README which you might find useful
>>> as well.
>>>
>>> I hope someone finds this useful.  I've been trying to fix overscan for a
>>> few years now.  I haven't seen anything on the list about this.  The
>>> overscan on my television is quite extensive, and this cleaned things up
>>> nicely after about fifteen minutes of experimentation.
>>>
>>>
>> yah back to the commandline. the nvidia-settings method, while it worked,
>> as often awkward on an htpc with no mouse.
>>
>>  You can always ssh in from another box.
>

Not to use nvidia-settings i don't think. It wants to deal with $DISPLAY
which will not be your TV screen.
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