Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

[Daniel Frey]

On Nov 7, 2013 9:47 PM, "Dale"  wrote:

> Mine isn't skewed to one side, it's just a fraction to large.  It seems
to be cut off by a few pixels all the way around.  Watching a movie tho, no
problem.  Using it for a puter monitor tho, slight issue.  To give a bit of
a idea, about 1/3 of the clock on the little panel thing at the bottom is
cut off.  The little K menu thing is missing about the same on both bottom
and left side.  You can see it but it just isn't all there like on my puter
monitor.
>
> Since I don't really plan to use it for a monitor, it's no biggie.  I
figure it could be that they just put to much plastic around the display
itself.  Sort of covered up to much of the screen.
>

Dale,

I am assuming this is a TV? All TVs apply overscan to inputs and that is
what you are seeing.

Most TVs made in the last five years have a way to turn that off, but it
varies. On my Samsung, I have to use the dvi/HDMI input and set the input
label to dvi/PC and overscan is then turned off for that input. It is
buried in the menu options but it doesn't explain what it does.

I have several mythtv frontends and found this solution about four years
ago when I replaced my living room TV.

Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

[Dale]

Daniel Frey wrote:
>
>
> On Nov 7, 2013 9:47 PM, "Dale"  > wrote:
>
> > Mine isn't skewed to one side, it's just a fraction to large.  It
> seems to be cut off by a few pixels all the way around.  Watching a
> movie tho, no problem.  Using it for a puter monitor tho, slight
> issue.  To give a bit of a idea, about 1/3 of the clock on the little
> panel thing at the bottom is cut off.  The little K menu thing is
> missing about the same on both bottom and left side.  You can see it
> but it just isn't all there like on my puter monitor.
> >
> > Since I don't really plan to use it for a monitor, it's no biggie. 
> I figure it could be that they just put to much plastic around the
> display itself.  Sort of covered up to much of the screen.
> >
>
> Dale,
>
> I am assuming this is a TV? All TVs apply overscan to inputs and that
> is what you are seeing.
>
> Most TVs made in the last five years have a way to turn that off, but
> it varies. On my Samsung, I have to use the dvi/HDMI input and set the
> input label to dvi/PC and overscan is then turned off for that input.
> It is buried in the menu options but it doesn't explain what it does.
>
> I have several mythtv frontends and found this solution about four
> years ago when I replaced my living room TV.
>
> Dan
>


And a quick google tells how to do this on my TV.  I'll have to test
later tho.  I unhooked the cable the other day.  I need to run it under
the floor so I don't trip over that monster. 

Thanks for the info tho.  That helped. 

Dale

:-)  :-)  

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[gentoo-user] Re: Video card with two ports.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-11-08, Daniel Frey  wrote:
>
> I am assuming this is a TV? All TVs apply overscan to inputs and that
> is what you are seeing.

FWIW, the history of overscan (why it existed in CRT-based TVs and why
it was kept when they switched to Plasma/LCD) is rather interesting:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan


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[gentoo-user] Purpose of sys-fs/udev-init-scripts

[Pavel Volkov]

Does sys-fs/udev-init-scripts serve any purpose on a system that:
1. Has systemd installed and openrc uninstalled
2. Has INSTALL_MASK="/etc/init.d/" set in make.conf

I'm asking because sys-fs/udev-init-scripts is a dependency of sys-
apps/systemd and I can't figure out why.
I currenly added it to package.provided.

This is the list of files it contains:
/etc
/etc/conf.d
/etc/conf.d/udev
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/udev
/usr/lib/udev/dev-root-link.sh
/usr/lib/udev/net.sh
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-network.rules
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/udev-init-scripts-26
/usr/share/doc/udev-init-scripts-26/README.bz2

[gentoo-user] no stinkin bootloaders!

[James]

Here is a very interesting read, posted by GKH:

http://kroah.com/log/blog/2013/09/02/booting-a-self-signed-linux-kernel/


Anyone tried this yet?

curiously,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] Purpose of sys-fs/udev-init-scripts

[Canek Peláez Valdés]

On Nov 8, 2013 4:27 PM, "Pavel Volkov"  wrote:
>
> Does sys-fs/udev-init-scripts serve any purpose on a system that:
> 1. Has systemd installed and openrc uninstalled
> 2. Has INSTALL_MASK="/etc/init.d/" set in make.conf
>
> I'm asking because sys-fs/udev-init-scripts is a dependency of sys-
> apps/systemd and I can't figure out why.
> I currenly added it to package.provided.
>
> This is the list of files it contains:
> /etc
> /etc/conf.d
> /etc/conf.d/udev
> /usr
> /usr/lib
> /usr/lib/udev
> /usr/lib/udev/dev-root-link.sh
> /usr/lib/udev/net.sh
> /usr/lib/udev/rules.d
> /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/90-network.rules
> /usr/share
> /usr/share/doc
> /usr/share/doc/udev-init-scripts-26
> /usr/share/doc/udev-init-scripts-26/README.bz2

The idea for it is that you can install systemd, and keep using OpenRC with
systemd as udev provider. Those scripts help with that.

If you use systemd exclusively, you can add udev-init-scripts to
package.provided.

Regards.