[mythtv-users] TV Overscan

[HP-mini]

On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 21:04 +1300, tortise wrote:
> On 13/02/2014 8:44 p.m., Nick Rout wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:
> >>> On 02/12/2014 03:47 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Thursday, February 13, 2014, 12:28:41 AM, you wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I have a Panasonic TC-42PX14 Plasma TV. When using an HDMI input it has
> >>>>>> a 1260 x 720 display resolution. However, it also does overscan.
> >>>>
> >>>>> There are possibilities with adapted modelines, but that takes a lot
> >>>>> of testing and trial and error.
> >>

> > Maybe so, but I find a lot of TV screens seem to restrict VGA to silly
> > maximum resolutions like 1024x768.
> 
> RTFManual says (as above and 
> http://shop.panasonic.com/shop/model/TC-42PX14?t=manuals&support#tabs) 
> max VGA is 1280x1024 which is no doubt the issue being grappled with 
> (The 1024)
> 

The nVidia driver release readme suggests the underscan/overscan
adjustment has returned to the GUI nvdida-settings from 3.19.xx.
nVidia stated their intention to re-instate this tool at some point.