[mythtv-users] Samsung DLP and X

Jake Palmer jakep_82 at hotmail.com
Thu Apr 26 01:24:45 UTC 2007


>From: "Brian Long" <briandlong at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Samsung DLP and X
>Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:37:30 -0400
>
>On 4/24/07, Jake <jakep_82 at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>I have a 46" Samsung (4667W).  I use a funky modeline similar to yours,
>>but I don't use xrandr.  I just scale everything to that modeline
>>(~1220x680).  I used to use the VGA input, but I've found the picture
>>quality to be MUCH MUCH better with a DVI-HDMI setup.   I can't comment
>>about Gnome as I use Fluxbox.   One other note is that I have one oddity.
>>When I start X I have significant overscan until I run nvidia-settings.  
>>To
>>fix that I added a line to my xinitrc file.
>>
>>nvidia-settings --load-config-only
>>
>>
>Jake,
>What changes did you make in nvidia-settings to compensate for the
>overscan?  Could you send me your 1220x680 modeline?
>Thanks.
>/Brian/

Brian,

I didn't change anything in nvidia-settings.  It just needs to run.  I'm not 
sure why and it might be specific to my setup.  My modeline is actually 
1200x680 (ridiculous overscan!) and is listed below.

Modeline "1200x680" 74.00 1200 1302 1350 1624 680 681 684 747 +hysync +vsync

Jake

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