[mythtv-users] LIVA and xorg.conf help

[david brooke]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:35 AM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Steven Adeff <adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've got a LIVA system connected to an old Sharp 720p hdtv that does
>> not provide modelines as part of it's EDID information which causes X
>> to quit out before running mythfrontend.
>>
>> I tried putting the following into an xorg.conf file to attempt to get
>> things to work, but no such luck. Has anyone figured out how to get
>> such a scenario to work with the intel graphics  in the LIVA systems?
>>
>>
> Not sure about the X.org way, but there's a way to force it in the kernel.
> You can do it on the kernel command line as demonstrated here:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/kernel_mode_setting#
> Forcing_modes_and_EDID  I think you can also build it in to the kernel
> statically.
>
> Karl
>
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> Use could use a program like CVT to calculate a mode line to use in your
xorg file:
https://linux.die.net/man/1/cvt
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