Ok so I finally got my cable and have managed to get everything working fairly decent with a few issues. One is that no matter what I seem to put in for a modeline I can't get my desktop to fit on the screen, it always overscans. I'm sure there is a way to do this I just am not sure how to create a line for this. I'm using Jarod's modelines and he included a modeline that does a different screen size within 960x540p (880x480) but I still can't make it fit my screen. Luckily for Myth this isn't a problem because you can specify the size and offset which I have. The problem is playing movies. Using external players the movie is always just a bit off the screen so I miss some things.
My MythTV settings are: GUI Width: 880 GUI Height: 507 X Offset: 40 Y Offset: 16 ... this has it pretty much centered and looking good but when I set the TV to play in the GUI size window I get a fine blue border I'm concerned *may* cause burn in. I've tried changing the size of the Myth GUI but it doesn't seem to change anything. Does anyone have any ideas how to alter modelines so that you can have a scaled screen size that fits your screen in a certain resolution timing? I think if I could get my desktop showing up perfectly on my screen that would fix any little problems I'm having now. Here is my xorg.conf file: # Xorg X server configuration for HDTV # by Jarod Wilson # bastardized by Lonny Selinger Tue Nov 22 10:32:23 CST 2005 # Last changes: Tue Nov 29 07:35:04 CST 2005 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "layout1" InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer" Screen "screen1" EndSection Section "Files" # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath "unix/:-1" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension Load "v4l" # Video for Linux Load "extmod" Load "type1" Load "freetype" Load "glx" # 3D layer # Load "fbdevhw" # Load "record" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "keyboard" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "en_US" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" Option "Emulate3Buttons" Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50" Option "EmulateWheel" Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "monitor1" VendorName "Toshiba" ModelName "57 in HDTV" HorizSync 31.5-37.9 VertRefresh 50-70 Option "DPMS" # My 960x540p mode Mode "960x540p" DotClock 37.26 HTimings 960 976 1008 1104 VTimings 540 542 548 563 Flags "+HSync" "+VSync" EndMode # My 880x480in540p mode Mode "in540p" DotClock 37.26 HTimings 880 944 1048 1104 VTimings 480 506 520 563 Flags "+HSync" "+VSync" EndMode # My 1920x1080i mode Mode "1920x1080i" DotClock 74.52 HTimings 1920 1952 2016 2208 VTimings 1080 1084 1096 1126 Flags "-HSync" "-VSync" "Interlace" EndMode # My 1760x960in1080i mode Mode "in1080i" DotClock 74.52 HTimings 1760 1888 2096 2208 VTimings 960 1012 1028 1126 Flags "-HSync" "-VSync" "Interlace" EndMode EndSection Section "ServerFlags" AllowMouseOpenFail Option "blank time" "0" Option "standby time" "0" Option "suspend time" "0" Option "off time" "0" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "device1" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "ASUS" BoardName "GeForce4 FX 4000" Option "NoDDC" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "screen1" Device "device1" Monitor "monitor1" DefaultDepth 24 Option "TVStandard" "HD480p" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 #Modes "960x540" Modes "960x540p" EndSubSection EndSection #Section "DRI" # Group 0 # Mode 0666 #EndSection I'm using a DVI-HDMI cable right now on a GeForce FX 5200VS if that helps at all. The overscan also happens while the machine is booting but I really don't care as long as it can all fit properly in X. Again, thanks for all your help everyone (and any suggestions you can give me on tuning this a bit more) -- Lonny _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users