[mythtv-users] screen position adjustment via software ATI

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sat Mar 29 20:46:46 UTC 2008


On 29/03/2008, Josh White <jaw1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Good afternoon, all.  This may be the wrong place to ask, but I'll give it a
> shot anyway.
>
> On my Debian etch frontend, running on a PPC eMac, I have no way of
> adjusting the display to make the picture fit the screen (it is offset to
> the left, and there is a lot of black space on the top and bottom).  This is
> true of all screen modes, when at the desktop, or in Mythfrontend or
> whatever.  For me, this adjustment is normally done by using the controls on
> the monitor itself, not through software, but my eMac has no physical
> interface with which to do this.  On OS X, there was a software utility to
> do it (stretch vertically, horizontally, move up, down, left, right, etc.),
> but that's obviously absent on my Debian install.  My video card is built
> in, and I believe it's an ATI Radeon 7500, AGP 4x, with 32mb onboard memory.
>  I realize ATI hardware doesn't have the best support in Linux, but perhaps
> someone else has come across a similar issue.
>
> I hope I'm describing my problem adequately.  Googling for help concerning
> "linux" and and "eMac" is difficult, since most "linux" issues related to
> the string "eMac" generally involve "emacs" which I've learned is something
> different entirely.

You might try using xvidtune to manually alter the modeline. It allows
you to make changes to the size and position of the image on the
screen at the X level, rather than requiring access to the monitor's
physical dimension controls.

-- 
Nick Morrott

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