--- chris wrote: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:36:09AM -0800, Ben Dash > wrote: > > Could someone please explain to me how overscan > works? > > There's two types of overscan... > > > I'm using the nv driver for my xBox and the top of > the > > displayed screen is a little narrower than the > bottom, > > i.e. the bottom reaches the screen edge and the > top is > > inset a little. > > Positioning problems are more properly fixed by > altering the modeline > timings to reduce the retrace delay. If you apply a > constant overscan, > by the time you get the top of the image to the top > of the screen you > will lose far too much off the bottom of the image. > I don't know if > the XBox driver supports custom modelines or not.
Good advice. I found this page noting a whole load of modeline options and will try some out tonight: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_HDTV Thanks! ----------------------------------------------------- | o | | _ /<_ | |(_)>(_) | |Ben Dash | |Ask free questions - http://bensqanda.blogspot.com | |My Blog - http://bensdailythoughts.blogspot.com | |Info - http://bensinformationstation.blogspot.com | |Workouts - http://bensworkouts.blogspot.com | ----------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
