[mythtv-users] NVidia/overscan problem

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry" <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>

> I'm not sure how different you SUSE setup is from my Fedora setup, but
> the following steps work for me:
> 
> Check out the second section on the wiki, entitled "With NVidia Cards and
> more recent nVidia drivers (greater than version 300)"
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Overscan#Making_MythTV_fit_the_screen_on_a_TV
> 
> First, create a modeline for the desired resolution. There is a link to
> the Ubuntu forums article on that page, but I'll put it here:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1003099&page=2 It's very
> thorough. It will take you a while, but it's worth it. I'd recommend
> printing out that article and using it as a reference. I also
> recommend a good cup of coffee.


Hee.  I actually already have a modeline in an xorg.conf fragment file
(SuSE uses the /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d approach), but it seems to be being
ignored.  It looks like this:

[ goes to copy it in to the email.  notices the file's been overwritten
by something.  oops ]

It was the stanza that's in this message:

  http://lists.ourshack.com/pipermail/mythtvnz/2007-January/001812.html

and I put it in 50-monitor.conf, where it isn't anymore.

Well, that might be why it wasn't taking effect.

I'll go read the Ubuntu thread, but it's been my experience that Ubuntu
is architected even more differently from What You Might Expect than
SuSE is.  :-)
 
> Then, use that resolution and do the overscan configuration in xorg.conf as
> well. You need to be using the nVidia proprietary drivers. It requires
> a bit of trial and error, but probably won't take more than a half hour
> to get right. There is a link there to the official nVidia documentation
> on the subject. I used the linked image on the page as my desktop
> background and tuned up my television.

So you're saying I'll have to switch from nouveau to nv?

Hmmm...  Perhaps my first move should just be to yank in the NVidia binary
drivers, and see how it works differently.

Cheers,
-- jra
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